These obvious considerations she urged with many tears.
"It was mighty hard," writes Crockett, "to go against such arguments as these.

But my countrymen had been murdered, and I knew that the next thing would be that the Indians would be scalping the women and children all about there, if we didn't put a stop to it.

I reasoned the case with her as well as I could, and told her that if every man would wait till his wife got willing for him to go to war, there would be no fighting done until we all should be killed in our own houses; that as I was as able to go as any man in the world, and that I believed it was a duty I owed to my country.

Whether she was satisfied with this reasoning or not she did not tell me, but seeing I was bent on it, all she did was to cry a little, and turn about to her work." David Crockett hastened to Winchester.

There was a large gathering there from all the hamlets and cabins for many miles around.