Arizona republican., 1917-06-30
NEGRO TROOPS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN WHERE
 BATTLE TH|CKEST

The negro's status in all the wars in which the United States has been engaged has been that of loyalty to the cause and in the present war it will be the same" said Capt. Hamilton Herman Blunt late of the Ninth In- fantry, U. S. ", and the Forty ninth United States Infantry.
 Captain Blunt was one of the factors in the organization ofthe original New York negro regiment, now the Fifteenth National Guard Regiment and in the Spanish American war he was the first negro officer to command a military post in Cuba. Afterward he saw ser vice in the Philippines, where he was a captain in the Forty ninth Infantry, and in 1900 personally captured Major Hoquin Cepedes. Aguinaldos secretary and spy, at Perenacgui, Luzon.
 Beginning with the American revo- lution," said Captain Blune. the first blood shed was that of negro seaman Crispus Attucks, on Boston Common
 Tn the Revolutionary army were fifteen thousand negro troops. Though half slaves. they fought for the inde pendence of the colonies.
 In the war of 1912 Commodore Law renee was commanding the American warship Chesapeake. He sailed out of Boston Harbor, with half of his crew composed of negro sailors, and attacked the British frigate shannon off Massa- chusetts Bay.
 The Native Louisiana ZOuaves led the charge against the ramparts of Chalmette under General Jackson at New Orleans in 1912, defeating Lord Pakenham, commander of the British forces.
 In the war with Mexico in 1S46 six negro soldiers were in the Alamo Fort, scene of the famous massacre.
 Tn the Civil War the negro soldier was a factor in achieving union vic tory, despite the decision of supreme court Justice Fancy in the Dred Scott case. In the wake of this decision Lincoln issued his call for volunteers for the union and was answered by 200, 900 brave men and patriots. who gave good account of themselves, as at Fort Pillow under Colonel Shaw of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts regiment. Colonel Shaw fell and he and many of his soldiers were buried in the trenches around the fort A request was made that the body of Shaw be given up to the union forces for burial. The an- swer war: We have buried him with his niggers who led the charge
 At the outbreak of the Spanish American war President McKiniey called for volunteers, and in answer fifty thousand negroes marched side by side with one hundred thousand white comrades Two hundred and forty negro officers were accepted and commissioned and mustered into the service. to serve the United States in two henispheres. In the navy, under Admiral Dewey. negro seamen. gunners and gunners' mates gave good account of themselves at Manila Bay In Admira l Schley's fleet off Cuba many of the chief men behind the guns were negroes.
 Tn 1916 negro troopers of the Tenth Cavalry, under General Pershing. led the troops after crossing the Rio Grande into Mexico
 And now comes the great universal conflict, in which forty nations and peoples are involved. In this contest the American negro citizens are with the president and government of the United States, and all racial idiosyn- crasies and hatred and preiudices should be buried forever The cabinets of the Entente nations are piedged to accord justice to all communities and peoples at the conclusion of this con flict on the basis of equality to all races, regardless of affinity creed or cOlor'