Houghton Mifflin Company College Text Book Teaching Lies

The Great American History Fact-Finder ^ | 04/29/03 | Me

[jgrubbs]

In a Houghton Mifflin Company College Text Book here is what they are teaching about the Morrill Tariff:

Morrill Tariff

(March 2, 1861), law passed to increase tariff rates in an effort to help business because of poor economic conditions during the Civil War. The rates were gradually increased during and after the conflict, bringing in revenue to help pay for the war.

http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/gahff/html/ff_129200_morrilltarif.htm

The Truth:

The U.S. House of Representatives, under the influence of this Northern protectionist lobby, "actually passed the Morrill tariff in its 1859-60 session, prior to the departure of southern congressman from the House of Representatives," write McGuire and Van Cott (emphasis added). "This vote took place on 10 May 1860, well before Lincoln's election, Confederate secession, and Lincoln's inauguration."  

This suggests that the Morrill Tariff was not a "war tariff" put into place to finance the war but the usual kind, designed to thwart free trade and plunder consumers, especially Southern consumers. This bill was passed a month before the first shot of the Civil War was even fired.

Moreover, the House vote of 105-64 was very lopsided in terms of Northern supporters and Southern opponents of the Morrill Tariff (Congressman Justin Morrill was a steel manufacturer from Vermont).  "Only one yes vote was from a secessionist state (Tennessee)" and "only 15 no votes came from northern states."  

[jgrubbs]

This is just another example of text books refusing to teach the true facts.

[So Cal Rocket]

Which is why my youngest daughter will never see the inside of a public school.

My oldest daughter brought her history book home a few years back, and I leafed through the section on WWII. The name "Adolf Hitler" appeared exactly once, yet there were 3 full pages on the internment of the Japanese by the US.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Lies in a textbook, well I never... You'll probably try to tell me the Yankees won the Great War Against Northern Agression.

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[Lysander]

You'll probably try to tell me the Yankees won the Great War Against Northern Agression.

Or that the war was fought to free the slaves!

[Grand Old Partisan]

The U. S. troops defending a federal government installation when the rebels fired the first shots of the war would disagree with your tagline as to which side was the aggressor.

[Huber]

Ping

[joesnuffy]

It's a French company....

[Poohbah]

In other words, secession was not precipitated by the Morrill tarriff, as the neo-Confederates would try to claim.

The root cause of secession was that the preferred candidate of the South lost the presidential election.

Rather foreshadowing the present mentality on democratunderground.com, eh?

[mabelkitty]

Double-edged sword.

I complain about liberal biased textbooks and then pointedly show where they are lying. Since the subject is not in my major, the fact that I see the blatant lies and debunk them distresses the office.

They change the textbooks (which is cool, and they've done it four times now), but now I screwed myself out of returning them and getting my stinking money back.

Oh well. It's worth it.

[ntnychik]

"True Facts"--LOL, as opposed to untrue facts?
My daughter's history text had one paragraph on JFK and three pages on Vietnam protests, including profanities. As a former history teacher, my quick way of checking for leftie texts was to look up the Nixon era. The worst texts invariably referred to the Committee to Re-Elect the President as (CREEP). Texts which were less objectionable in many other ways used the proper acronym of CRP. FWIW, as a teacher I at that time was able to use original resources and a wide variety of decent books and ignore the texts. IMHO all the life and excitement of history is drained out by the time it is committeed to death in a textbook.

[Grand Old Partisan]

Exactly! And let's not forget that every single Confederate rebel was a DEMOCRAT. The Unionist "Billy Yanks in the hills" (hillbillies) of Appalachia as well as the southern blacks all voted Republican as soon as they could. Remember, the treasonous tendencies within the Democratc Party did not begin recently -- they go back to the Civil War and beyond.

[Conspiracy Guy]

The truth is the nawth wanted our grits at a discount. Well we weren't about to sell grits at no discount. The nawth also wanted our recipe for barbeque sause and picante sause. Well that was just too dang much so we told the nawth to kiss our big ole butts. This of course PO'd Abe Lincoln and he said we are coming to get them. Then he said we'll even take your slaves. We said you can have the slaves and Abe said OK if we get the grits discount and the sause recipes too. Then we whupped the nawth's butt. Then in the early 20th century a bunch of commie publishing companies started rewriting the history books. It is frightening.

[Willie Green]

"The war between the North and the South is a tariff war. The war is further, not for any principle, does not touch the question of slavery, and in fact turns on the Northern lust for sovereignty."

~ Karl Marx

[Grand Old Partisan]

Karl Marx? Well that settles it!

[RightOnline]

"You'll probably try to tell me the Yankees won the Great War Against Northern Agression."

[insert honey-drippiing Southern accent here] Well, ahem.........that would be the "War OF Northern Aggression", sugah.

[El Gato]

You'll probably try to tell me the Yankees won the Great War Against Northern Agression

The same way the Japanese won WW-II in the Pacific... in the long run. (Or so it appeared before the Japanese economic boom went bust. Sometimes I think it was the Red Chinese who actually one the war, mostly by fighting the Nationalist Chinese with more vigor and resources than they fought the Japanese)

[fifteendogs]

They fired at an occupying force.

[billbears]

The U. S. troops defending a federal government installation when the rebels fired the first shots of the war would disagree with your tagline as to which side was the aggressor.

Never mind the fact that the President at the time broke a truce that he wouldn't send troops and sent them anyway. Never mind the fact that installation was there for one reason and one reason only. Hint, it wasn't there to free slaves. Make people slaves perhaps, but not free them.

Of course you need to post a link to your book so everyone can order a copy. We all know how unbiased it is.....

[Lysander]