There was something in the style of the article which satisfied Crockett that there was a little disposition to make fun of him; and that his nomination was intended as a burlesque.
This roused him, and he resolved to put in his claim with all his zeal.
He consequently hired a man to work upon his farm, and set out on an electioneering tour.
Though very few people had seen Crockett, he had obtained very considerable renown in that community of backwoodsmen as a great bear-hunter.

Dr.Butler, a man of considerable pretensions, and, by marriage, a nephew of General Jackson, was the rival candidate, and a formidable one.

Indeed, he and his friends quite amused themselves with the idea that "the gentleman from the cane," as they contemptuously designated Crockett, could be so infatuated as to think that there was the least chance for him.

The population of that wilderness region was so scarce that the district for which a representative was to be chosen consisted of eleven counties.
A great political gathering was called, which was to be held in Madison County, which was the strongest of them all.

Here speeches were to be made by the rival candidates and their friends, and electioneering was to be practised by all the arts customary in that rude community.