Prior to the 1960s, most American historians were truth seekers as opposed to excuse makers and propagandists for their favorite political figures and causes. A case in point is the following passage from S.E. Morison and Henry Steele Comager, The Growth of the American Republic (1942), vol. 1, pp. 699-700:
“Abraham Lincoln was a dictator from the standpoint of American constitutional law and practice; and even the safety of the Republic cannot justify certain acts committed under his authority . . . . A loyal mayor of Baltimore, suspected of Southern sympathies, was arrested and confined in a fortress for over a year; a Maryland judge who had charged a grand jury to inquire into illegal acts of government officials was set upon by soldiers . . . beaten and dragged bleeding from his bench, and imprisoned.”
Ever wonder why you were never taught these things in the government schools?
8:46 am on January 29, 2004
