Special Message
12/16/1906
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Precisely the same action would have been taken had the troops been white--indeed, the discharge would probably have been made in more summa...
In precisely the same spirit I have now acted with reference to these colored men who have been guilty of a black and dastardly crime.
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...
It is obviously not desirable that young men should go to school with children.