Preface

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     "Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall
             soon stretch out her hands unto God."

                         THE
                    HINDERED HAND:
                         OR,
                   THE REIGN OF THE
                     REPRESSIONIST.

                         BY
                  SUTTON E. GRIGGS.

                THIRD EDITION--REVISED.
                      AMS PRESS
                       NEW YORK

                   DEDICATION.

To a devoted father, of rugged strength of character,
            and, withal, pre-eminently a man
            of peace, and to a loving mother,
            ever tender and serene of soul--
        To these twin moulders of the hearthside, who
         have ever been anxious that their children
           should contribute naught but what is
            good to the world, this volume is
              most affectionately dedicated
                    by their son,
                  THE AUTHOR.

SOLEMNLY ATTESTED.

Upon a matter of such tremendous importance to the American people as is the subject herein treated, it is perhaps due our readers to let them know how much of fact disports itself through these pages in the garb of fiction.

We beg to say that in no part of the book has the author consciously done violence to conditions as he has been permitted to view them, amid which conditions he has spent his whole life, up to the present hour, as an intensely absorbed observer.

If in any of these pages the reader comes across that which puts him in a mood to chide, may the author not hope that the wrath aroused be not wasted upon the inconsequential painter, but directed toward the landscape that forced the brush into his hand, stretched the canvas, and shouted in irresistible tones: "Write!"

Very respectfully,
SUTTON E. GRIGGS.

Nashville, Tenn., May, 1905. _

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