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Show I'liorcit uur Mir i,iucnc.uiM A little paper emanating from Dayton, Ohio, under the title of the Young Catholio MtiKnytr and au ex. oneut ot the religious vlewasuggesttd by lta name, prtaenta an Idea whoso trlotla and sentimental lurposo will fully make up tor what may bo want-lug want-lug In a practical way. Htartlng out with the announcement that "we aro not Americans, Me are Columbians," It proceeds to address "the estimable and honorable body, the House, of Ilcpriaentatlvoo of thu United Htatea of Ami rlca," stating that as a lasting fiaturn of the oulebratlon of tho four hundredth annUerstry of th '!s-covory '!s-covory of our w intern contln. by Christopher Columbua, "we suggest that the national Cougrtsalonal body, the llouao of Itcpnseutatlves, cou-Jointly cou-Jointly with .the honorable and estimable legislative bodlis of our slater countries on our continent, lusuguratu a movement and ais a bill to change tbo namo of tho now world from America to Columbia" Colum-bia" Jt lapropoaed to call all tho territory ter-ritory north of tho lathmus North Columbia and all the rest Houth CoV umbla, our country to be the "United Htatea of North Columbia." The .Veuengcr Is of tho opinion that such change would reotlfy A "mlstate that was bom lu Iguoraucu and lias lived In lujustiov," that It would be following tho Biblical Injunction to render htuor to those to whom It Is Uue; that It would reiclvo the thaoks and approbation of the worl I, aud tkat It would bhed Immortal glory on the Klfty-secoud Congress for Its lUgh stnseof Justlco and truth, Bo say wo all. Thi.ro Is scarcely a schoolboy that has beoomo familiar with tho history of this country and tbe clrcumatancca of IU dla. covory who has not marvilod at thu departure from poctlo Juntlce performed lu giving to Amerigo Vea. puccl, against all precedent and every Instinct of seiitlmmt aud Justice, tbo station In literature and history which rightly belonged to the during navigator whose feet first pressed the Mil of Han Halvador. Bo keenly la this wrong felt In a gvneral way that I'ocsy, thu younger and tenth r sister of History, has lavoked tho equities aud ellected eo much of rojnrallon ns could bo accomplished In song and among thu tnodirn cbualLS heuce wo hive the moro melodious, bettir rouudedaud moro fltlltus dislg- I nation, Columhli. llutithlt appellation It confine I tn Its rourre, and what le wanted to make the sit t atlon exact aud fitting before the world la what Is aug. jested by tho taper tUted an official change of name throu h the c eratlon of law. While all this la granted, it Is not likely that anything of the kind will occur. After having worn a name for well nigh four hun 3 ed years, It will be found a illtllcult If not Impracticable task to get rl I of It. The world, and morclespeclally the newer portlouof II, Is nut greatly ad llctod to sentiment forsentlment'ssake, and ao much of Jus-lice Jus-lice a men now noconlpllahoreeek to aceoinpllah la rath I r ot thn Immediate and concreto than of tho distant and abstract quality, four ceiiluilea of a llfo amid tho Jostle anl worrying aud Intermingling and strife of n race whose upward anf onward tendency la Intellectual, atril whoso advanced Inttlleituallty dmn list make them more practical and moro bent upon the accomplishment tf merely tomporal things, havu wnll-nlgh tempered us down to the condition of letting tho dead, whether teanllfol or not, rest aa It Is; at least, no further Intern)) tlon Is Uktly to occur than such as obtains among writers and eongstcrr. We tnowmoreln this age than was ever dreamed of In tbo philosophy phil-osophy of Columbus or any of his co temporaries, auil no belter Illustration of It can be given thau tho (act thk. such a dlscussl in aa that suggested by thtso lines Is bw going on. Had tho nomenclature vrltli which tho North American continent was to lie clothtd been left to Us, there would havo been no such rank Injustice done as was nnllled In tfiotra of discovery; we arelpractlcal, and matter-of-fact, and sometimes sordid, and generally grasping; grasp-ing; but wo have too much regard for Justice between man and man to lay the foundation for any suoh contention four hundred years lienco as Is now going on bemuse of the wrong dono Christopher Columbus, |