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Title: Crisis
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963, ed National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Subjects: African Americans
Publisher: (New York, Crisis Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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who desired it—to fail.When it started across that fatal beachwhich led to the parapet of Wagner, itstarted to do what had not been successfullyattempted by white troops on either sideduring the war. It passed through such anordeal successfully; it came out not merelywith credit, but wilii an imperisliable fame. The ordinary chances of liattle were not. MEN OF THE MONTH 123 all which the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth hadto encounter. The hesitating policy of ourgovernment permitted the rebels to confronteverv black si.ldior Avith the threat of death he had braved that double peril intended tocheat him out of the pay on which his wifeand children depended for support. Wetrust Mr. Secretary Stanton is by this time
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or slavery if he were taken prisoner. If heescaped the bullet and knife, he came backto camp to learn that the country for which iiearlily ashamed of the dishonesty whichmarked his dealings with the black troops,but we are not going into that question. We 124 THE CRISIS said then, and we reiterate now, that therefusal of pay to the colored soldiers wasa swindle and a scandal, so utterly without ex-cuse that it might well have seemed to them asif intended to provoke a mutiny. Few whiteregiments would have borne it for a month.The blacks maintained their fidelity in spiteof it for a year and a half. When the Fifty-fourth was offered a compromise the menreplied with one voice: No, we need, themoney you offer; our families are starvingbecause the government does not pay us whatit promised, but we demand to be recognizedas soldiers of the Republic, entitled to thesame rights which white soldiers have.Until you gxant that we will not touch adollar. *It was a sublime heroism, a loftier senti

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