On the 400th anniversary of Columbus‘s voyage of discovery, October 12, 1892, Chauncey Depew, a famous lawyer, statesman and public speaker, made a speech that became known as the “Columbian Oration” at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, which was itself a celebration of Columbus.
This day belongs not to America, but to the world. The results of the event it commemorates are the heritage of the peoples of every race and clime. We celebrate the emancipation of man. The preparation was the work of almost countless centuries; the realization was the revelation of one. The Cross on Calvary was hope; the cross raised on San Salvador was opportunity. But for the first, Columbus would never have sailed; but for the second, there would have been no place for the planting, the nurture, and the expansion of civil and religious liberty. …
At Princeton University, a racial reckoning and a free speech battle
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