ion.

2. In spite of the solemn assurances of the writer that the incidents
depicted in "The Hindered Hand" are based upon actual occurrences, there
has appeared here and there a slight air of questioning with regard to
some things related. Particularly does it seem hard to believe what is
told of the manner of the death of Bud and Foresta Harper. The writer
would be only too glad if he could but free his mind of the knowledge
that the picture is true to life in the utmost horrible detail, The
Nashville _American_, one of the leading Southern daily papers, at the
time of its occurrence, accepted the account as we have given it as
correct and made editorial comment upon the same, and no one would dare
pronounce that paper hostile to the South.

We stand ready to furnish ample evidence of the absolute correctness of
each and every portrayal to be found in "The Hindered Hand."

SUTTON E. GRIGGS,
No. 610 Webster St., Nashville, Tenn.

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A HINDERING HAND

SUPPLEMENTARY TO THE HINDERED HAND.

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_A Review of the Anti-Negro Crusade of Mr. Thomas Dixon, Jr._

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A HINDERING HAND.

THE POOR WHITE AND THE NEGRO.

From the door of a squalid home, situated mayhaps upon a somewhat decent
spot in a marsh or upon the very poorest of soil, the poor white man of
the South, prior to his emancipation by the Civil War, looked out upon a
world whose honors and emoluments cast no favoring glances in his
direction.

Between the poor white and his every earthly hope stood the Negro slave.
As his thoughts now and then stole upward toward the higher social
circles, he realized that the absence of slave quarters from his home
entailed his absence from those upper realms. If in the marts of toil he
offered the labor of his hands, he felt his cheeks tingling from the
consciousness that others regarded him as being upon a level with
slaves; and at the best the market for his labor was very limited, for
the fatted slave stood in his way.

So utterly forlorn was the condition of the poor white that the enslaved
Negro felt justified in meeting his protruding claim of racial
superiority with contemptuous scorn. In the very nature of things the
strongest sort of repulsion developed between this class of whites and
the Negro slaves. The work, therefore