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s 6.3 times 5 times 5.3 times Colored convicts over native whites, 16.1 times 15 times 19.3 times 10.3 times It appears from these figures, that the amount of crime among the colored people of Massachusetts, in 1850, was 6 8/10 times greater than the amount among the foreign born population of that State, and that the amount, in the four States named, among the free colored people, averages _five-and-three-quarters_ times more, in proportion to their numbers, than it does among the foreign population, and over _fifteen_ times more than it does among the native whites. It will be instructive, also, to note the _moral condition_ of the free colored people in Massachusetts, the great center of abolitionism, where they have enjoyed equal rights ever since 1780. Strange to say, there is nearly three times as much among them, in that State, as exists among those of Ohio! More than this will be useful to note, as it regards the direction of the _emigration_ of the free colored people. Massachusetts, in 1850, had but 2,687 colored persons born out of the State, while Ohio had 12,662 born out of her limits. Take another fact: the increase, _per cent._, of the colored population, in the whole New England States, was, during the ten years, from 1840 to 1850, but 1 71/100, while in Ohio, it was, during that time, 45 76/100. There is another point worthy of notice. Though the New England abolition States have offered equal political rights to the colored man, it has afforded him little temptation to emigrate into their bounds. On the contrary, several of these States have been diminishing their free colored population, for many years past, and none of them can have had accessions of colored immigrants; as is abundantly proved by the fact, that their additions, of this class of persons, have not exceeded the natural increase of the resident colored population.[71] Another fact is equally as instructive. It will be noted, that, in Ohio, the largest increase of the free colored population, is in the anti-abolition counties--the abolition counties, often, having increased very little, indeed, between 1840 and 1850. But the most curious fact is, that the largest majorities for the abolition candidate for governor, in 1855, were in the counties having the fewest colored people, while the largest majorities against him, were in those having the largest numbers of free negroes and mullatoes.[72] From these
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