Produced by Suzanne Shell, Victoria Woosley and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "_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 Reprinted from a copy in the New York Public Library Schomburg Collection From the edition of 1905, Nashville First AMS EDITION published 1969 Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 77-100533 AMS PRESS, INC. New York, N.Y. 10003 _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. ILLUSTRATIONS. BY ROBERT E. BELL. Pages. "The young woman looked into his face" 20-21 "Her pretty brown eyes nestling" 24-25 "Name me as I was named" 40-41 "The rock battle was now on" 54-55