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Rh this country by the Dutch in 1619, and were landed at Jamestown, Virginia. The first cargo consisted of fourteen [sic]. The census taken in 1890 shows that these fourteen slaves had increased to 7,638,360" (p. 4). That he meant this just exactly as it is said is proven by what he restates on pages 22 and 23 of the same book in the following words: "I know that whether the Negroes are increasing or decreasing, whether they are growing better or worse, whether they are valuable or valueless, that a few years ago some fourteen of them were brought into this country, and that now those fourteen are nearly ten millions." It is hardly worth while to say here that nothing of the kind occurred or has occurred. In the first place twenty of these African cannibals were first brought here upwards of two and a half centuries ago, instead of "a few years," and many, many thousands were added to them from 1619 to 1862, and that of the ten millions of negroes he speaks of as now being in the United States, not more than half of them are negroes but are mulattoes, like Frederick Douglas, Du Bois, and others.

I think William Hannibal Thomas in his excellent work on The American Negro, had good reason to say of him "he lies with avidious readiness, and in all moods and degrees of enormity, without undergoing the slightest remorse, and often without any apparent sense of prevarication. He lies to please, to evade, to conceal, to excuse, to assert, to command. He lies to be heard, and will not be silent, though he has no truth to utter" (p. 118). And of him again on page 121, "There is a cunning astuteness about the nature of a negro which renders him an adept in deception,

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