Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

People have spoken as if this discharge from the service was a punishment. I deny emphatically that such is the case, because as punishment ...

But I wish it distinctly understood that the fact of the birthplace of either officer is one which I absolutely refuse to consider.

Every farsighted friend of the colored race in its efforts to strive onward and upward, should teach first, as the most important lesson, al...

Precisely the same action would have been taken had the troops been white--indeed, the discharge would probably have been made in more summa...