He called us into his house to take a drink, and spread down one of his best bed-quilts for us to walk on.

It was nothing but a piece of pride." The day of election came, and Crockett was victorious by a majority of two hundred and forty-seven votes.

Thus he found himself a second time a member of the Legislature of the State of Tennessee, and with a celebrity which caused all eyes to be turned toward "the gentleman from the cane.".