An Aggrieved Union Soldier Seeks Sympathy From His Southern People.
About the same time and place a young mulatto called on us and began to berate his comrades. He said, “Dese old, black Pennsylvania Niggers ain’t got no sense nohow. Dey jest as mean as dey can be.” I said, “Ain’t you a Pennsylvanian?” “No, sir; I’se a Southerner, I is. I is a Virginian and I’se no kin to dem old, black Pennsylvania Niggers; but I’se some kin to you Southerners.” We told him we were sorry he had got into such bad company. He said, “Yes, Southern folks heap the best.”
A Southern railroad conductor said, “My Afro-American friend, you are in the wrong car; you must get in with your own color.” “Well, Cap’n, if you say so, reckon I’ll have to move; but what you goin’ to do when we all gits to heaven?” “Well, if I am conductor, you will move. Get along now.”
A man traveling to West Virginia, where they have free cars, said as soon as they got out of Virginia, at the first stop, it was amusing to see the darkies vacate their cars and come piling into the white’s coaches, thus showing how aggressive they are for social equality.