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Rh proceeded immediately to start a subscription paper to pay the fine. Happily, it had been remitted and the money was not needed.

Mr. Delaney was a physician of great skill. He was among the first Afro-Americans to graduate from Harvard College. He championed the cause of the Afro-Americans for four years through The Mystery, which suspended publication in 1847. This connection with The Mystery, was his first appearance in public life.

Mr. Brown, in his "Lives of Representative Men and Women," says—"His journal was faithful in its advocacy of the rights of man, and had the reputation of being a well-conducted sheet."

Dr. Delaney died January 24, 1885, after living a useful life seventy odd years.