He contained multitudes…
… not all of them quite admirable. But a Happy 193rd birthday to Walt Whitman, in spite of this editorial he wrote for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in 1846:
What has miserable, inefficient Mexico – with her superstition, her burlesque upon freedom, her actual tyranny by the few over the many – what has she to do with the great mission of peopling the new world with a noble race? Be it ours, to achieve that mission!






