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That is precisely our position. Of course, there are in history great men of whose birthplaces or birthdays we are equally uncertain.
I have heard lately that one of the birthplaces has retired from the competition, and that the haberdasher has the field to himself. I am glad, for the sake of those friends of mine who have bought his handkerchiefs and ties as souvenirs. There is, however, nothing very attractive about the house itself.
Here, too, in this border town commences the chain of birthplaces of eminent men, who have honored Scotland with their lives and history.
"Possibly," he suggested, "in the course of your deep and intimate intercourse with men and affairs, you may recall the name of an individual named Shakespeare." "Yes, I think I remember." "How about Macaulay, the greatest essayist in England, and Homer, the prince of ancient poets, with seven birthplaces? Then there's Emerson and Longfellow and Goethe and "
There, at Jeemst'n, America first gave a home to the European, and hard by, at Yorkt'n, the tie with Europe was sundered. There ye may see Williamsburg, and our oldest college. There ye may see the birthplaces of four Presidents, and there the capital of Virginia!" With such, and other temptations, did he direct me on my journey.
He rejected the birthplaces of famous persons one and all; they could not drive through a street or into a park, whose claims to be this or that street or park he did not boldly dispute; and he visited a pitiless incredulity upon the dishes of the table d'hôte, concerning which he always answered his wife's questions: "Oh, he says it's beef," or veal, or fowl, as the case might be; and though he never failed to relish his own dinner, strange fears began to affect the appetite of Mrs.
A camp was a moving town, and to it flocked the country people with their goods; smiths and armorers erected their forges; minstrels and troubadours flocked in to sing of former battles, and to raise the spirits of the soldiers by merry lays of love and war; simple countrymen and women came in to bring their presents of fowls or cakes to their friends in camp; knights rode to and fro on their gayly caparisoned horses through the crowd; the newly-raised levies, in many cases composed of woodmen and peasants who had not in the course of their lives wandered a league from their birthplaces, gaped in unaffected wonder at the sights around them; while last, but by no means least, the maidens and good wives of the neighborhood, fond then as now of brave men and gay dresses, thronged the streets of the camp, and joined in, and were the cause of, merry laughter and jest.
For this reason I have selected a few specimen birthplaces for the guidance of those who may be ignorant of the points which should be possessed by a birthplace. Take, for instance, the residence of Andrew Jackson. No one has ever retained a stronger hold upon the tendrils of the Democratic heart than Andrew Jackson.
Then he traveled on to Siguensa and to Toledo, and afterward from Toledo to Valencia. In all these cities, the birthplaces of his companions, he would receive nothing from their parents and relations, although they offered him a great many things, and begged him to accept them. At Valencia he had a conversation with Castro.
"But do not you call yourself Scotch?" said Ermine, who had for years thought it glorious to do so. "My great grandfather came from Gowan-brae," said Alick, "but our branch of the family has lived and died in the th Highlanders for so many generations that we don't know what a home is out of it. Our birthplaces yes, and our graves are in all parts of the world." "Were you ever in Scotland?"
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