“Let us be certain that our children know that the war between the States was not a contest for the preservation of slavery, as some would have them to believe, but that it was a great struggle for the maintenance of Constitutional rights, and that men who fought Were warriors tried and true, Who bore the flags of a Nation’s trust, And Fell in a cause, though lost, still just, And died for me and you.” J. Taylor Ellyson, Lt. Governor, Virginia, 1910.
On a visit four years ago to the Fort Sumter Park and tour facility in Charleston, South Carolina, I attempted to obtain the United States Department of the Interior Park Service pamphlet that provides the historical background of Fort Sumter. A Park Service attendant explained that the Park was temporarily not selling the booklet.
Further questioning revealed that the Park Service had explained to the employees that the historical booklets were being withdrawn, and none could be sold. They were being rewritten and would be sent along following the next printing.
Seeking an explanation as to what history was being revised, the local Park Service Resident-Historian explained that the United States Congress had recently directed the U.S. Park Service to change its presentations to the public regarding the Civil War era historical locations and their historical facts.
Research later revealed that Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr., of Chicago, Illinois, had inserted language in a Department of Interior appropriations bill for Year 2000 that instructed the National Park Service to promote the idea about slavery as the sole cause of the war at all Civil War park sites.
By its actions, the United States Congress has agreed that American history as has been presented by the Park Service must be rewritten so that it can be used in the political campaign for influencing public opinion on the history of slavery in America.
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