Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

I have condemned in unstinted terms the crime of lynching perpetrated by white men, and I should take instant advantage of any opportunity w...

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

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.

If the colored men elect to stand by criminals of their own race because they are of their own race, they assuredly lay up for themselves th...