Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

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...

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

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

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...