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Show INCULCATING FALSE HISTORY. A curious reversal of the main points in the colonial and revolutionary history his-tory of the country is sought, it appears, ap-pears, by some of the educators of California, and they have been able to get their ideas introduced in a concurrent concur-rent resolution of the Seriate of tbat State. The resolution, of course, did not pass; but it is very curious to sec what complete historical reversals are sought. The points were brought forward at a meeting of the Sacramento County Teachers' Association by an cx-supcr-intendent. of schools in a not her county. He claimed that the perversions consisted con-sisted in saying that Great Britain had performed radical acts to provoke the Revolutionary W;ir, whereas be contended con-tended that not one radical act bad been porpetratcd. I To holds that the Boston massacre was not tbe slaughter that it is represented to havo been; thai the stamp acts were justified, and the refusal of the colonists to pay those stamp taxes was "actuated solely by a dosire to evade a just proportion of their expenses in this country"; aud finall', that the Boston tea party was made up of irresponsible colonists bent on malicious mischief, who, operating under the gnie. of patriotism, wrongfully wrong-fully and maliciously destroyed tho property of other people. The resolution referred to embraces all this iu its preamble, and then goes on to denounce the teachings of "fundamental "fun-damental errors,'' such as the perversions perver-sions indicated, in the schools of California, Cali-fornia, and to regret the report which j fays tbat in the University of Cali fornia these perversions are taught. Tho Legislature, therefore, was usdiod to declare "that lhe?c utterauccs are false ami uutrue, that they arc in every seuso a manifest contradiction to the true history of tho birth of our country, coun-try, and subversive of the very foundation foun-dation principles of our Goverumonl." Iu addition, it 'is recommended that any history book putting forth such :' grossly falpo and disloyal ideas" should be eliminated from tho schools of the Stiile, and any teacher professing profess-ing them "jthould lie forever weeded out of any position as insdructor of the schools of the State." If the resolu tion bad passed, the Governor would' have been called on to investigate as fo this pernicious teaching, aud if bo found it inculcated anywhere in the schools "from the kindergarten up to and including the State Uui versify," he was to take such moasurcs as would effectually "weed forever such traitors out. of the school system of California.' Califor-nia.' ' Thai is getting right, back to the Tory idea that prevailed among the king-lovers iu Revolutionary times. One would suppose that tbis sort of thing must be a joke, or a travesty of some kind, if it had not been really presented in earnest and urged upon tho Legislature of California, It reminds re-minds ouc irresistibly of the decree of Governor Blcaso of South Carolina, wherein he ordered that in all history books in the schools ot that State it should be expressly taught that Shcr-mau Shcr-mau malignantly and maliciously burned tbo City of Columbia, the capital capi-tal of that State. All of which brings ouc to the foundation foun-dation of tbe whole matter, which is, that history should bo left to tbo historians, his-torians, anl that where ignorant and perverse politicians undertake to impose fake history upon the schools, they should be summarily squelched. |