Even in the Slaveholding States did Colored people magnanimously "brave
the battle field," developing a heroism indeed as though their own
liberty was to be a recompense. But we found no proof that the boasted
chivalry of the Palmetto State extended the boon demanded by simple
justice.
The celebrated Charles Pinckney, of South Carolina, in his speech on
the Missouri question, and in defiance of the Slave representation of
the South, made the following admission:
"They (the Colored people) were in numerous instances the pioneers,
and in all the laborers of our armies. To their hands were owing the
greatest part of the fortifications raised for the protection of the
country.
Fort Moultrie gave, at an early period of the experience an untried
valor of our citizens, immortality to the American arms."