DE MORTUIS, NIL NISI BONUM.
Justin Winsor, a celebrated American critical historian. Born, 1831.
No man craves more than Columbus to be judged with all the palliations demanded of his own age and ours. It would have been well for his memory if he had died when his master work was done.
His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument.