Note 477 — Chapter VI · Attempts to Control Textbooks

The New York Times, June 23, 1922, editorial. The Times felt that “quite the gravest of Miss Rutherford’s charges against Lincoln, ... is that he wanted a civil war and forced the South to begin one that inevitably would end in her defeat and ruin.” Objection was also raised to Miss Rutherford’s charge that Lincoln’s Gettysburg address was worthless. Rutherford, Mildred, Truths of History (Athens, Georgia, 1921).