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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Hunter Holmes McGuire, M. D., Ll. D. (search)
oticed only as local politicians, and of the more imposing histories of the United States which have obtained general currency, we do not complain, or do no more than point out follies in a passing review. But, of one class of such literature we have complained, and have done more than complain, we have rooted it out from our public schools because of its tendency to inculcate falsehoods which were vicious in their intent and pernicious in their consequences. The aphorism is attributed to Fletcher of Saltoun: Let me write the songs of a people, and I care not who makes their Laws. The writers of these meretricious books, with hope of more far-reaching results, might, with more of practical wisdom, say: Let me write the school books of a people, and I care not who writes their songs or their Laws. To no man in the land is the credit for this work of wholesome expurgation in the South more due than to Hunter McGuire. The engrossing demands of his professional life, on its many s