[730] Ibid., p. 7. Barnes, Everett, American History for Grammar Grades (New York, 1920).
[731] Griffin, op. cit., p. 9.
[732] Ibid., p. 11.
[733] Ibid., p. 8. Objections were lodged against John P. O’Hara’s history although he is a Catholic. In The Fortnightly Review, April 15, 1924, Mr. O’Hara protests against the criticisms directed against him: “As long as the criticisms were confined to the Hearst press and similar secular mediums of publicity I was able to follow the discussion without being greatly disturbed; but when with the blessing of the K. of C. Historical Commission the Hearst ‘authority’ was allowed a page in Columbia, the official K. C. organ, on which to spread his charge that I, among others, was a Benedict Arnold who had sold his country for British gold, and when, in addition, his stuff was widely reprinted in the Catholic press, a different situation was created.... I received letters from various persons complaining ... that a man of my name should have fallen a victim to British agencies of corruption. One such letter put me in distinguished company in this fashion:
“‘Judas, 30 pieces of silver;
Benedict Arnold, 10,000 pounds and a coronet:
O’Hara???’”
The Fortnightly Review, Vol. XXXI (April 15, 1924), pp. 156-157.
[734] The Gaelic American, March 11, 1922, p. 6. “McSweeney on the Schools.” The pamphlet by Mr. Griffin, from which the author has quoted, was published by the Hudson County Federation of the Holy Name Society (1922) “as a guide to Red-Blooded Americans with the moral fibre strong enough to believe and insist that American History, crimsoned with the blood of our martyrs, shall be maintained in its entirety and shall be elaborated upon by those authors alone, who, as Americans, still believe In the Magnificent Structure Which the Forefathers of this Republic Have Reared and Which Must Endure.”
[735] Jaegers, Albert, A Brief Sketch of the Life and Character of Baron von Steuben (Steuben Society Publication, Jacob Leisler Unit), p. 5.