| Show from have recently contained sc accounts counts of the eap capture ture and d execution of traitors to the american cause soldiers who arho deserted from our ranks and yarned joined the insurgent edba army probably bly because they had become enamoured ena of some beautiful filipino Pili pino woman asensi A sense of unutterable contempt comes over a true american when he learns of the ignominious ign ominous treachery which leads an american soldier who can turn his guns muzzle against the breasts of his former comrades but after all there is a kind of bitter satisfaction in knowd knowing i g that among the traitors that the spanish war has produced not one has been a negro with his hia deepest sympathies appealed to by people nearer hib own blood with his affections intertwined ter twined with those of the people he was called upon to fight with the knowledge and memory of persecution se cution and abuse and prejudice ridden appreciation at home not a single black soldier has turned his gun against the stars and stripes was it because he was afraid no I 1 it was because he appreciated the trust placed upon him as a defender of his country throughout the cuban campaign no personal advantage presented itself to him through the overthrow of spanish rule only americans could carry caste into cuba but the black soldier fought aud and died for america as he would do in the philip pines knowing that beneath american prejudice would be buried the glory of the claim that throughout a remarkable and bloody war not a single american traitor came from the ranks of the negro soldiers I 1 the statesman |
