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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447987" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Loyalty to the Flag</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the love of home and country and the flag of Uncle Sam,<br>Can the loyalty be doubted of a dusky son of Ham?<br>Wheresoever duty calls him, as a freedman or a slave,<br>The response is ever hearty when 'Old Glory' he would save.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas the war of Revolution, when a Negro's blood was first,<br>To be shed for independence, when a yoke the land had cursed;<br>Crispus Attucks died in Boston, on State street he paid the debt,<br>Liberty his blood has planted and the tree is growing yet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ask the spirit of Pitcairn how he came to meet his death?<br>Where and who it was that brought him down to breathe the dying breath?<br>'Twas the Negro Salem's bullet at the charge of Bunker's Hill,<br>Bringing to the whites their freedom but to Negroes naught but ill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the battle of New Orleans, eighteen fourteen was the year,<br>When the Negro fought with valor till the victory was clear;<br>Jackson paid this glowing tribute—may the spirit never lag—<br>'None more strong and none more useful, none more loyal to the flag.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O, how brave the Negro soldiers when the Civil war was fought!<br>Shall they fight such noble battles in the nation's cause for naught?<br>Hark! the battle cry of Charleston! at Fort Wagner is the place!<br>At Port Hudson and Fort Pillow how the rebel guns they face!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fifty-fourth of Massachusetts—may such regiments be praised—<br>By its valor at Fort Wagner, North and South became amazed!<br>Hall began as color-bearer but was killed on duty grand,<br>To the spot went William Carney and the colors took in hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wounded many times was Carney, shot in head, in arm and thigh,<br>On one knee he fell and crawling kept the colors flying high,<br>Blood upon the banner streaming while his words the action crowned;<br>'Boys I've kept aloft 'Old Glory' and it never touched the ground!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Colonel Stafford was disabled, Dwight his men to battle led,<br>With great feeling at New Orleans, Stafford to the sergeant said,<br>'Guard, protect defend these colors,' 'Yes,' he answered, 'though I die<br>I will bring them back in honor or to God report the why.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All the world has heard the story of the Cuban war with Spain,<br>Ah! the sound of Negro valor falls upon the ear again,<br>At Elkaney and San Juan how they helped to win the day,<br>Near the town of Santiago, held the enemy at bay!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Side by side with other soldiers being in complexion white,<br>Negroes died to take San Juan in the thickest of the fight,<br>Thus they gained the worthy plaudit from the loyal, brave and true;<br>'Negroes on the field of battle, dignify the nation's blue.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall the prejudice existing in the country now, increase,<br>While the Negro's patriotism merits rest at home and peace?<br>Nay, the hydra-headed monster in the end will surely die,<br>We expect the right to triumph over evil by and by.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lizelia+Augusta+Jenkins+Moorer">Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer</a><div class=q>
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Can the loyalty be doubted of a dusky son of Ham?
Wheresoever duty calls him, as a freedman or a slave,
The response is ever hearty when 'Old Glory' he would save.

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