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“In fourteen hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue” and discovered a New World—a world where the greatest and freest nation in history, America, would eventually be founded. In an age where practically every historical figure is vilified with every bad name that woke leftists can come up with, I want to remember Columbus’s vital achievement by looking at the very simple but famous poem by Jean Marzollo commemorating his historic voyage.
“In fourteen hundred ninety-two
Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
He had three ships and left from Spain;
He sailed through sunshine, wind and rain.
He sailed by night; he sailed by day;
He used the stars to find his way. . .
October 12 their dream came true,
You never saw a happier crew!
’Indians! Indians!’ Columbus cried;
His heart was filled with joyful pride.
But ‘India’ the land was not;
It was the Bahamas, and it was hot.
The Arakawa natives were very nice;
They gave the sailors food and spice.”
Columbus was not a vicious murderer of Indians, as he has been depicted. There were men under his command who did bad things, but often it was against his explicit instructions. And some natives were very happy to see potential allies who could help them with their cannibal enemies. But even this poem is not really quite fair to Columbus. It doesn’t mention Columbus’s motivation to discover new tribes in order to evangelize them for Christianity, for instance.
Christopher Columbus truly gave us a New World, a world where liberty could spring up and flourish as never before in history, and for that we must be sincerely grateful.
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