...orthern States numerous bodies of them were enrolled, and fought side by side with the whites at the battles of the Revolution. Let us now look forward thirty or forty years, to the last war with Great Britain , and see whether the whites enjoyed a monopoly of patriotism at that time. Martindale, of New York, in Congress, 22d of first month, 1828, said: Slaves, or negroes who had been slaves, were enlis...