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110 murder, 16 persons, 2 white and 14 colored. Two years after (March 26, 1890), there were on the calendar 18 murder trials, the greater proportion by far having been committed by negroes. I now read that brief article with considerable satisfaction, for it is more than prophetic in its statements, and now, many years later, hundreds of different newspapers all over the country are printing accounts of crime that sustain what I then stated, and further stated in the Washington Analostan Magazine for March, 1891, and The Daily Picayune of New Orleans, La. (Vol. LV., No. 23, February 16, 1891, p. 8), and elsewhere. In the New Orelans paper I remarked that " In 1882 I watched some several hundred negro children as at noon they poured out of one of the large colored public schools at Washington, D. C. The other day (1890) the same sight was presented to my eyes at exactly the same place, but a most marked change was perceptible. In the first case, the vast majority of the children were black, the mulatto being the exception; in the second instance, more than 50 per cent, were mulattoes, and many others so white that it would be difficult to pronounce with certainty upon them." That article was entitled " Foreign Races in the United States," and when I published it, not one in forty who read it, believed in what I said, any more than they did in what I said on " Hybridization of our Race with the Negroes in the United States," in The Religio-Philosophical Journal a month before (Vol. I., No. 34, Chicago, January 17, 1891, p. 533). What do those readers think now, if any of them chance to be in the land of the living? Was I in error? I am very sure I was not. Moreover, readers of the articles on this