This Day in History: October 23

The Congressional Committee meeting with Washington agrees to accept the Penobscot, Stockbridge, and St. John's Indian tribes offers of assistance, allowing them to be employed in the Army if necessary. The committee decides, however, to exclude African Americans.

One could make the argument that pragmatism was needed to accomplish the end goal due to the attitudes and interests of the time. It still sucked.

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