"Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shallsoon stretch out her hands unto God."
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
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.
Upon a matter of such tremendous importance to the American people as isthe subject herein treated, it is perhaps due our readers to let themknow how much of fact disports itself through these pages in the garb offiction.
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, amidwhich conditions he has spent his whole life, up to the present hour, asan intensely absorbed observer.
If in any of these pages the reader comes across that which puts him ina mood to chide, may the author not hope that the wrath aroused be notwasted upon the inconsequential painter, but directed toward thelandscape that forced the brush into his hand, stretched the canvas, andshouted in irresistible tones: "Write!"
Very respectfully,
Sutton E. Griggs.
Nashville, Tenn., May, 1905.
| 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 |
| "What do they take me to be" | 86-87 |
| "Yer air jes' a plain, orternary liah" | 114-115 |