We are told that seven cities claimed the honor of giving birth to Homer. Tile desire of the patriotic admirers in North Carolina to claim without successful refutation the birth of the greatest man this country has produced from the depths of obscurity and pinching poverty is quite natural. for North Carolina has produced so many men who have been developed like Jackson and Benton in other States in this extensive Republic. Both England and Scotland have claimed Jackson as a subject. while others maintained stoutly that he was born on board a ship as it brought the immigrant parents to free America to escape the oppression of the British Government. Virginia. too. not content with being the proud birthplace of seven Presidents. likewise has set up claim to Jackson. and more than one historian has presented plausible arguments in support of its contention to those who have not taken all the evidence in the &ase and weighed it Impartially with a correct knowledge of all the facts. The principal authorities making tLis claim are Cookes Virginia. page 325. and an article setting forth as the author W.
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