XXXIII
The negro has no linguistic laws—his pathetically musical speech is fast dying away—only will linger the salient printed form to convey to the future some idea of the olden dialect.
La Salle Corbell Pickett—“In de Miz Series.”
I know of the intelligence of the negro, for I have heard of his unquestioned loyalty between every war of our land from Bunker Hill to the Argonne. Secretary of the Navy Daniels.
The only flag the negro ever carried was when his spirit was stirred crimson by the sacrificial blood he gave for America. Cite me a negro traitor! Justice Stafford.
In the World War, in France up in the zone where death was spread about I found the black man and the white man fallen side by side. Secretary of War Baker.
The courage that faces death on the battlefield, or calmly awaits it in the hospital, is not the courage of race or color.
Clara Barton.
Two of the bravest men I ever saw lay wounded, almost side by side, one white and the other black. Clara Barton.
The patient suffering of the black soldier is fully equal to that of the Anglo-Saxon. Clara Barton.