CHAPTER X.
RESUME.
Should the question be asked "how did the American Negroes act in the Spanish-American war ?" the foregoing brief account of their conduct would furnish a satisfactory answer to any fair mind.

In testimony of their valiant conduct we have the evidence first, of competent eye witnesses; second, of men of the white race; and third, not only white race, but men of the Southern white race, in America, whose antipathy to the Negro "with a gun" is well known, it being related of the great George Washington, who, withal, was a slave owner, but mild in his views as to the harshness of that system--that on his dying bed he called out to his good wife: "Martha, Martha, let me charge you, dear, never to trust a 'nigger' with a gun." Again we have the testimony of men high in authority, competent to judge, and whose evidence ought to be received.

Such men as General Joseph Wheeler, Colonel Roosevelt, General Miles, President McKinley.

If on the testimony of such witnesses as these we have not "established our case," there must be something wrong with the jury.

A good case has been established, however, for the colored soldier, out of the mouth of many witnesses.
The colored troopers just did so well that praise could not be withheld from them even by those whose education and training had bred in them prejudice against Negroes.