The magazine of American history with notes and queries . e Dis-coverer of America had never left their ancientcathedral walls. But while the civil and eccle-siastical authorities of the Dominican Republicwere congratulating themselves on the honorwhich the discovery gave them, the event pro-duced a far different effect in the sister isle. InCuba the reported existence of the remains ofColumbus at Santo Domingo was received with little less than was regarded as an attempt to deprive the city of Havana of one of itsmost prized and glorious possessions. Spain took up the cause of
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . e Dis-coverer of America had never left their ancientcathedral walls. But while the civil and eccle-siastical authorities of the Dominican Republicwere congratulating themselves on the honorwhich the discovery gave them, the event pro-duced a far different effect in the sister isle. InCuba the reported existence of the remains ofColumbus at Santo Domingo was received with little less than was regarded as an attempt to deprive the city of Havana of one of itsmost prized and glorious possessions. Spain took up the cause of her colony, and Senor Lopez Prieto inHavana,1 and Don Manuel Colmeiro2 in an Informe addressed to the RoyalAcademy of History in Madrid, assailed the authenticity of the discovery inSanto Domingo. The controversy that arose was one of the warmest his-torical discussions of our time, and Archbishop Roque Cocchia was evenaccused of having conceived and carried out a stupendous fraud. For a time articles of greater or less length, all upholding the Spanish. EFFIGY OF COLUMBUS AT HAVANA. 1 Informe que sobre los restos de Colon presente al Excmo Sr Gobernador Oral. Don JoaquinJovellar y Solar. . Don Antonio Lopez Prieto. Habana, 1878. 2 Los Restos de Colon. Informe de la Real Academia de la Historia. Madrid, 1879. WHERE ARE THE REMAINS OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ? view of the question, circulated through the press in this country. It wasthe intemperate character of these articles that drew my attention to thequestion. I wrote to several editors and endeavored to ascertain the evi-dence in the hands of the writers, but not in a single case could I obtainthe slightest response. One thing was clear, they did not emanate fromany of the historical scholars of the country. They were merely the workof penny-a-liners. The next step was to collect, as far as practicable, the accredited docu-ments of the whole controversy and study the question on its merits. Let us then go back to the last days
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