New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-07-25
THE BLACK MEN IN THE REVOLUTION
AMI WAR OE 1910

The return Of the fe.tival Of our National hide
pcndence has called our attention 10 matter
which has been very carefully kept ont Of sight by
orators and tosst-drinkers We a!uce TO the partlo-
iparion Of colOred men III the great struggle for
American freedom.
OF the services and sufierings OF the colorcd SOL
diers Of the Revolution no attempt bas, 10 our
knowledge, been made 10 preserve record. They
have had no historian. With here ana there an eA-
ception, they have all parsed away and Qrly some
iaint TRADITION OF their campaigns under Washing
ton and Greene, and Lafayette, ani OF Their crus-
mgs upoer Decatur and Barry, fingers among their
descendants. Yet enough II known ~ shcw tbal
the free colored Of the United States bore their
full proportion Of the sacrlces gnd trials OF the
Revolutionary VI ar.
The hte Gov Eus,is Of Mas, the pride and
boast of the Democracy Of the East binsef an ac-
tive participant n e war, and therefore IA moot
comte,ent ItLess; Gov Morrill, o, y. H., Judge
Hem bill OF Pa, and other Members of Congress,
Ia tue debate OF the question Of admitting Mi-soun
~ slave State into The Union, bore emphatic estl-
mony 70 the efficiency and beroism oi The BLACK
troops How. CALVIN Goddard Of Conn. states that
ia tie little circle Of lis retioence, he was insru-
mental in securing under The act OF 1918, the pen
siOus of nineteen colOied soldier. IL canpot, he
save refrain from mentioning one aged black man,
PIimus Babcock, who proudly presented 10 me an
honorable dischafge from service during Tue war,
dated at the close oi it, wholly in the Handwriting OF
George Washington; nor caL forget the expression
Of bis feelings when informed, alter his discharge
had beeo .eot 10 the War Department that II could
not be returned. At has request IT was ~riteh Tor,
as he toeued inclined 10 spurD the peLnion and re-
claim the discharge" There is touching anecdote
related Of Baron Sieuben, on the Occasion OF the
ldsbandment Of the American army. black col
der, with bis wounds unhaled utterly destitute,
slo,d on the hart Jutt vessel bound Tor his dir
tant home VIA getting under way.
The poor fellow gazed at the vessel with tears III
D - 4 tn d.Sf IA M
hearted foreigner wituessed his emotion, and, in
curing into Tue Of 1t, took his last dollar from
Ina nurse and gave il to bin, with tears Of sympa-
inv trucking dow WI his checks. Overwhelmed with
Gratitude the poor wounded soldier bsied the soop
and yas received on board. Az il moved out from
tie wharf he cried back 10 lie noble ire0d on Shore
/" God Almighty bless you Master Baron
ain Rbode Issnd," says Gov. Eusir, 10 his able
speech agalnst Slavery III Missouri lzth OF IweNth
Month. $3.50 "the bi4cks formed All entire regiment
a. they discharged their duty with zeal and hdei-
inv. Tie q liant defense OF Red Bank, III winch
The black regiment bore part, in among the proofs
nj tler yalot liz THE contest viii be iecollecled
tbat four hundred men met and repused, after
terrible ard saDgulnary struggle, hiteen huhdrod
He,.icn troops beaded by Count Donop. The glory
Of the defense OF Red Dnpk, WHICH has oeth pro
nonnced one of the most heroic actions OF the war;
L,lougs in reality TO black men; yet who now hear-
tLem suokep OF ia connection with II Among tue
trlnts which diAtinguished the biacx regiment was
devotio 10 their officers In the attbck MADE upon
tbe American lines near Croton River, on the 18th
If the Fifth Month, 1871, Col. Greene, the COM
msnder of the regiment, was cut down ana NOR
talIv wounded; but the sabers OF the enemy only
reached him through the bodies Of his faithful guard
of blacks. WHO lowered over him TO project m'n'
e,eru one of whom uas k,Aed. The late DR. Harms
nj DunbaTton, New-IIampshre Revolutionary
veteran, stated, in speech at Francestown, New
Uaupsfife some years ago, that on one occasion Tue
regiment 10 which he wss attscbed was commanded
70 defend an important position, when the enemy
thrice assailsd and from which they were aS often
renul,ed. "Ibere was, =" said the venerable speaker
4" regiment OF blacks in the same siluAtioh-sIe
meut of negroes fighting for our liberty ana ihaee
nendeuce. not a white man among them ou' We
,tIicerp-in the came dangerous ana respo"hIpi
poritIon. Had they been uniathful, or gwen way
before the enemy, all would Lave been ios. "S,
times 10 SUCCESSION were they attaehed WIN ,Ao
desperate fury by we'll disciplined ana veteran
troops, and three times did they successfully Tspe'
the assault, and thus preserve an arfny.
fought thus through The War. They were ofa'o Ai'u
hardy troops." c,;.. n
In the debate in the New-York C0nvsnuoh y,
1871 for amending the Constitution OF inc Save W -,
the question of extending the night OF s1iIfaHe "
the blacks, DIR. Clarke. tho delegate nom DsMwa,e
County, and ether members, made hOporso'e n. :.
ton Of the services Of the colored troops Of 'ne
Revolutionary army. ..r
The late James Forten Of Philadeiphia' we'
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