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Show a iiuor.x.si AturAno.v. Tho conlluuo! tattempt lo nrouso a national willingness to chants thu name of our country from America to Columbia Is only a frcuh remit) tor that It Is generally tho mau who tells of u thing, not tho man who dies It, that la honored and pcrHtuated by hli i otem porarle and thus by later generation. No una disputes thatlf Ihe right ot discovery dis-covery bad prevailed, this coutlueut v. ould havelwrno the liaiuu of thu hardy Genoese v. boss crownlug uct a hundred hun-dred million peoplo uru cilebrutlng thli nimth. Hut It so hippencd that among his ctlluers Uiltluj; a later voyage there wasaalutelllgontrioren-tine, wasaalutelllgontrioren-tine, Amerigo Veipuool, ur Vespurlus, who on his return to l.uroe publlshej aglowlngaccount of thulaiidslie visited nud gave to the world the first formal announcement ot the discover), clalmlug, so far as Ihe conllneutof thu west was ojuccrneJ, to have been thellrsttoectfootupjn It. Ills name was gUen to thu new world by a famous German cosmonrapher, Martlu WuMsceraueller.tbrnugh whom works, pissing through euvoral ellttoui, It was tastened irruvocably, not alto gather by caprice, upon b.HIl con. tluenti comprltlug the hemisphere. After all, the purpose of the rm lit agitation Is not worth Its coat. Colvinibua needs no tardy recognition In this uur day to cauio his name to be ' remembereJ. If Viepuccl conns In for some rememoranos too, what tmt te-ra II; bis gluty In no wise eclipses that of hli commander. The niran of Ihe one Is preserve! by a strange freak of fortune; Ihe fame' of the other can never be illnime I aud will grow ever brighter through all the ages. |
