Rediscovering the New World
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES
7:22 p.m., Friday, October 8, 2010
Over 100 years ago, Columbus Day was known as Discovery Day. President Benjamin Harrison's Discovery Day proclamation in October 1892 asked the people of the country to "cease from toil and devote themselves to such exercises as may best express honor to the discoverer, and their appreciation of the great achievements of the four completed centuries of American life." The holiday honored the spirit of the occasion more than the man who made it happen. The holiday did not only honor Columbus, it glorified all he made possible and what generations of free Americans had made of it.
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