Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-06-08


colcred men who occupied seats as
delegates in the convention With these
one hundred colored delegates came two
hundred colored spectators from the cotton
fields and rice plantations of the South. They
afforded a curious and instructive study.
Generally they are good natured, jolly,
affable fellows, who are not aware Of their
color, and the better class Of them are
shrewd, sharp and not to he caught with
chah They present as many variations in
type as any equal number of whites selected
at random from half score or more OF
States
All sorts.
The aged negro is here. So is the pomp
ous. the imposing. the Aashy, the ignorant
and the highly educated Ethiop. Fred
Douglas perhaps better than any other man
of his race represents the learned negro.
He is looked up to by the Southern negro
with certain degree of reverence that his
Northern brother does not feel for the living
apostle of miscegcnation Senator Demoy
large, dignifed appearing man, with the
airs Ola lord is a true representative OF the
imposing negro Demos is a Louisiana
man, who has the most unboundPd faith IN
the possibilities of each member OF his race
and particularly of his own.
The Thrifty Negro.
The South has some wealthy negroes
Men who control large plantations and
work numerous hands. Such a man is
Harvey, of Mississippi. He owns large
cotton farm; is well educated and SELF
possessed lie talks well and delights to
get crowd around him. Like most intel
hgent cOlOred men he is unconscious Ot.his
color and any possible prejudice on account
of it. There is not the slightest suggestion
Of Difference to white opinion He has his
say, without obtrusiveneSS, is courteous, and
we'll versed in social amenities. HeiS a well
dressed man, but his attire is devoid Of
effort at display. The big diamond on his
black hand is the only evidence of that per
sonal vanity which often makes negroes so
conspicuous and sometimes often
siye Referring to the election of
Mr. lynch as temporary chairman
he said Lam very glad of the Lynch epi-
sode sa@ no special political significance
in it, but rather regarded it as compl-
ment to our race, and it was timely and
graceful compliment.
He filed his trust with ability, did he
not?' Mr. Harvey asked with pride
The Negro Dude.
Men among the Harvey type have great
contempt for the dudes among the colOred
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And they are numerous. The Grand Pacific
and Sherman House have most Of the
colored dudes on exhibition They are
generally copper colOred but often one sees
the genuine negro, decked out IN the loudeSt
of clothes, the SainieSt of hats fancy cane
and the regulation dude collar. These are
Of two claSSeS-the smart Boston and the
New York darkey, who at home is a boss
barber, a chief cook, head waiter, but al
ways one who has hung upon the edges of
society, and knows the ways Of fashionable
people und initiates them, and the fashy
darkey from the South who has all the in-
stincts and love of display of his Northern
brethren but without Opportunity heretofore
to indulge them
Not TO Blame.
A very intelligent colored man from Nir
giuia, a contingent of the Malone delcga-
ton in referring to this love of display said
that the Young cOlOred man from the South
was scarcely TO blame. At home he is re-
stricted both as to means and opportunity.
He can't wear good clothes there, because
they are not to be had, and he has no
money to buy tlem if they were He comes
up here he finds he is treated at hotels,
bars, in railways and in all other things
without prejudice 1t is all novelty. He
enioys it and is at once seized with desire
to become noticeable. He thinks fiaShy
clothes and fashionable hats and nObby
canes is the way to attract attention. lie
sees these fancy darkies from New York,
Boston and Philadelphia, with their clothes
of artistic cut their general air of luxury,
and he wants to get right into their ranks.
He goes off, sells his tickets, or raises
money in any other way he can and the
next day you will see him in exaggerated
elegance and all the more exaggerated be-
cause YOU can see he is unused 10 it, and
the style i'll becomes him
Bruce and Pfnchback.
Bruce is one of the most intelligent men
on the ground and emiuently respectable.
So is Pinchback, Of Louisiana. The latter
is better known than any of the negro dele
gates, perhaps. His name is T. Il. ).
Pinchback. Percy BySshe Shelly Pin.h-
back is wha. the New York Sun made the
name out years ago and hangs to it, but
that is d nonsense, said Ham Carter, of
Vicksburg, Yesterday. "Piuchbacks name
is Pinckney Benton Stuart Pinchhack. i
want YOU to know that he derives his name
from line of statesmen-nOt a line OF
poets, not much-and the Honorable
Ham" leaned harder against his post;
Statesmen sir, not poets. "Plnckney
came from C. c. Pinckney. an oldtime
Southern statesman. Benton is from
Tom Benton. Stuart" is the family name
of old Major Pinchback's wife and Pinck-
new Benton Stuart Pinchback is son OF
old Major Pinchback, Of Holmes county,
Mississippi, a white planter Of wealth ana in
Auence, and one of the best men that ever
breathed
A Popularity.
The Southern negro is very sensitive as
to his name. He allows no reference to 1t
whatever. The posSessor OF an historic or
even a popular name ignores the fact that
spy one but himself ever possessed It, and
and it is neither pleasant or safe to refer to
it. A case in point: At saloon last
night Duff Green, Virginia negro, array
ed ike Solomon in all his glory, was lean
ing over the mahogany bar, toying play
6nily with his ice water" I'm from NIr-
ginny, sab, an nv names Green, Duff
Green and don yer forgit il" he replied to
an inquiry from bystauder. At the same
counter lsuk cadaverous creature. whose
ewes were poems ofsadness and his face an
enic of badness interpolated lany relation
of old Duff Green, Of Tennessee. lmme-
d;a,ely there was trouble, and the
coIored delegate was in for fight, We
did not propose to be insulted BY any man;