COLORED POPULATION, 9,064 49,069 53,626 25,279 In the Penitentiary, 47 257 109 44 Being 1 out of 192 190 492 574 Colored convicts over foreign, 6.8 times 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.