2. The details of the Maulville burning were given the author by an eyewitness of the tragedy, a man of national reputation among the Negroes. Some of the more revolting features of that occurrence have been suppressed for decency's sake. We would have been glad to eliminate all of the details, but they have entered into the thought-life of the Negroes, and their influence must be taken into account. 3. The experiences of Eunice upon being assigned to membership in the Negro race are by no means overdrawn. The refined, cultured and most highly respected young woman whose actual experiences form the groundwork of that part of the story was not only thus accosted and insulted by a white man of the order indicated, but was actually beaten in a most brutal manner and fined fifteen dollars in the police court. 4. The following statement of facts lends interest to the contention of one of the characters of THE HINDERED HAND, to the effect that the repressionist order of things brings forward, by its own force an undesirable type of officials. During the recent presidential campaign the repression of the Negro was made an issue in the state of Tennessee. The most representative audience that assembled during the whole campaign in the State was wrought to its highest pitch of enthusiasm by the following outburst of eloquence from the Junior Senator of that state: "The man that does not know the difference between a white man and a 'nigger' is not fit to be President." The kind of a state Legislature begotten by a campaign in which the foregoing remark marked the highest level of the discussion so far as the popular taste was concerned, may be judged from the following comments on that Legislature after it adjourned: "There were many men in the last Legislature upon whose faces the mark of incompetency or worse was as plain as the noonday sun."--_The Nashville American._ "It would be better for Tennessee to groan on under present laws and let the Legislature meet no more in ten years if it were possible under the Constitution."--_Lebanon Banner._ "Mediocrity was in the saddle, and picayunish partisan politics held the center of the boards."--_Franklin Review-Appeal._ "The Legislature has adjourned. Many praises unto the 'Great I Am.'"--_Murfreesboro News-Banner._ "Throwing bricks at the Legislature is a favorite pastime, but really a brick is hardly big enough for the purpose.--_Franklin County Truth._ "In our opinion the present Legislature will go down in history as the most incompetent body of lawmakers that ever sat in the capitol of Tennessee."--_Tullahoma Guardian._ "The Tennessee Legislature has adjourned and perhaps done less to commend itself than any of its predecessors."--_Obion Democrat._