Young America would be told the truth.
Two of the Whipples were vastly puzzled by these pronouncements, and not a little disquieted.

Old Gideon and Harvey D.began to wonder if by any chance their boy, with his fine intellect, had not been misled.
Sharon was enraged by the scandalous assertions about George Washington, whom he had always considered a high-minded patriot.

He had never suspected and could not now be persuaded that Washington had basely tricked the soldiers of the Revolution into war so that the capitalistic class might prevail in the new states.

Nor would he believe that the framers of the Constitution had consciously worded that document with a view to enslaving the common people.

He was a stubborn old man, and not aware of his country's darkness.