The Hindered Hand: The Reign of the Repressionist
Sutton E. Griggs
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(, Nov. 5, 2013)
Upon a matter of such tremendous importance to the Americanpeople as is the subject herein treated, it is perhaps due our readersto let them know how much of fact disports itself through thesepages in the garb of fiction.We beg to say that in no part of the book has the author consciouslydone violence to conditions as he has been permitted to view them,amid which conditions he has spent his whole life, up to the presenthour, as an intensely absorbed observer.If in any of these pages the reader comes across that which puts himin a mood to chide, may the author not hope that the wrath arousedbe not wasted upon the inconsequential painter, but directed towardthe landscape that forced the brush into his hand, stretched thecanvas, and shouted in irresistible tones: “Write!”Very respectfully,SUTTON E. GRIGGS.Nashville, Tenn., May, 1905.