THE APPEAL has stated a number
of times that there are no colored
traitors in the United States, but we
feel that we ought to make a retrac
tion.
A colored traitor has been found
and his name is John Burlingame, a
resident of the world famous murder
city, Memphis, Tenn.
After a mob of leading Memphians
had burned a colored man at the stake,
dancing like wild Indians around the
body as it burned, John Burlingame,
a colored chauffeur, seized an Ameri
can flag from an automobile he wasjust
driving and cried to several colored -c
men who had witnessed this act of 'P
barbarism: "Come on boys! We arethropists
through! Let's join -the Germans!
Hurrah for the Kaiser!"
Then he tore up the flag. He wasyou,e
seized by a dozen men who started to i
ove
th
Pedea
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T^14 Who Has Been Appointed a Member of-One Ptthe,
*&&.'& a**...'.* Draft Exemption Boards for That City. a^S
hundred and six years ago, ancfliied
in Hartford, July 11, 1896.
Mrs. Stowe was the wife of Prof.
