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He contained multitudes…

31 May 2012

… 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!

 

Today’s birthday boy at the time of the Mexican-American War… before coming out as America’s greatest poet

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