817.] [Footnote 9: _Public Opinion_, XVIII, pp.

370-371.] [Footnote 10: Because of these conditions the last fifty years has been considered by some writers as a "dark age," for the South.] [Footnote 11: The Negroes are now said to be worth more than a billion dollars.

Most of this property is in the hands of southern Negroes.] [Footnote 12: _American Law Review_, XL, pp.

29, 52, 205, 227, 354, 381, 547, 590, 695, 758, 865, 905.] [Footnote 13: No.

300 .-- Original, October Term, 1910.] [Footnote 14: Hershaw, _Peonage_, pp.