Thus it appears that the Negro everywhere, many times oftener than the White man, falls into prison; but in the North still oftener than in the South, and not only is he relatively more frequently criminal in the North--he is absolutely so. For, to judge from the court records, the South is in general more law-abiding than the North. It may be useful here to give a table of the criminality of the five grand divisions in the census years 1880 and 1890, giving the number of prisoners per million of population, with the increase of each division in ten years; 1890 1880 Increase United States 1,315 1,169 146 North Atlantic 1,624 1,425 199 South Atlantic 1,288 1,043 245 North Central 888 862 26 South Central 1,466 1,250 216 Western 2,221 2,199 22 Here the great North Central appears by far most law-abiding. The reason is, the criminality is raised by foreigners in the East, by the Negro in the South, by the adventurer in the West. On comparing the total number of prisoners North and South with the total populations, we find that there were in the South about six prisoners per myriad of Whites, and twenty-nine prisoners per myriad of Blacks; whereas in the North were twelve prisoners per myriad Whites, and sixty-nine prisoners per myriad Blacks. On going from South to North, we find the prison numbers exactly doubled among the Whites, but much more than doubled among the Blacks. But our tables can teach us still more. The increase from 1880 to 1890 is worth attention. In the West and the North Central region, it was only slight--twenty-two and twenty-six per million; but both in the South Central and the South Atlantic, it was very great--216 and 245 per million. To whom was it due? To the Black, or to the White? In part to both, but far more to the former. The White increase was only seven per cent., the Black was twenty-seven per cent. Worse than this, however, in the North the White increase was hardly five per cent., but the Black increase was thirty-five per cent.--whence it appears that in criminality the Negro, especially the educated Northern Negro, is striding forward in seven-league boots.