Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

I ordered the discharge of nearly all the members of Companies B, C, and D of the Twenty-fifth Infantry by name, in the exercise of my const...

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

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

I have striven to break up peonage; I have upheld the hands of those who, like Judge Jones and Judge Speer, have warred against this peonage...