Some even acquire wealth." In the same monthly for February, 1883, Prof.E.W.Gilliam has a long article on the "African in the United States," in which he does all he can to make wider the breach between the blacks and the whites.

He has very little good to say of the black man.

But he was forced to make the following admissions, viz: "The blacks are an improving race, and the throb of aspiration is quickening.

* * * Advancement in mental training and in economic science must needs be slow but there _is_ advancement." The learned professor makes the interesting calculation that the blacks in the Southern States will increase from 6,000,000 in 1880, to 192,000,000, in 1980; while the whites in the South, in 1880, 12,000,000, will number only 96,000,000, in 1980.

The learned professor infers that this vast army will be "doomed to remain where they have been, and be hewers of wood and drawers of water," because they form a "distinct alien race." I think, if the professor will wait until 1980, he will find that this "alien race," which profligate white men have done and are doing so much to amalgamate with their own race, will not only increase approximately as he has figured it out, in numbers, but in wealth as well.
The future landlord and capitalist of the South are no longer confined to the white race: the black man has become a factor, and he must be counted..