[475] Ibid.
[476] Chicago Daily Tribune, June 23, 1922, editorial.
[477] 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).
[478] The New York Times, June 28, 1922.
[479] Ibid., June 24, 1922.
[480] Ibid., November 4, 1922.
[481] Written in 1917 and sent to Miss Rutherford who added to the contents and produced her Truths of History.
[482] Rutherford, op. cit.
[483] Ibid., p. 64. Miss Rutherford gave no source for this quotation.
[484] Ibid., p. 70. Miss Rutherford ascribed this quotation to Lamon’s Life of Lincoln.