This closed my career as a warrior; and I am glad of it; for I like life now a heap better than I did then.

And I am glad all over that I lived to see these times, which I should not have done if I had kept fooling along in war, and got used up at it.

When I say I am glad, I just mean that I am glad that I am alive, for there is a confounded heap of things I ain't glad of at all." When Crockett wrote the above he was a member of Congress, and a very earnest politician.

He was much opposed to the measure of President Jackson in removing the deposits from the United States Bank--a movement which greatly agitated the whole country at that time.

In speaking of things of which he was not glad, he writes: "I ain't glad, for example, that the Government moved the deposits; and if my military glory should take such a turn as to make me President after the General's time, I will move them back.