Characteristically he says: "It was a bran-fire new business to me.

It now became necessary that I should tell the people something about the Government, and an eternal sight of other things that I know'd nothing more about than I did about Latin, and law, and such things as that.

I have said before, that in those days none of us called General Jackson the Government.

But I know'd so little about it that if any one had told me that he was the Government, I should have believed it; for I had never read even a newspaper in my life, or anything else on the subject." Lawrence County bounded Giles County on the west.

Just north of Lawrence came Hickman County.