You had not the politeness even to allude to me in your speech.

But when my little friends the guinea-hens came up, and began to holler 'Crockett, Crockett, Crockett,' you were ungenerous enough to drive them all away." This raised such a universal laugh that even Crockett's opponents feared that he was getting the best of them in winning the favor of the people.

When the day of election came, the popular bear-hunter beat both of his competitors by twenty-seven hundred and forty-seven votes.
Thus David Crockett, unable to read and barely able to sign his name, became a member of Congress, to assist in framing laws for the grandest republic earth has ever known.

He represented a constituency of about one hundred thousand souls.
An intelligent gentleman, travelling in West Tennessee, finding himself within eight miles of Colonel Crockett's cabin, decided to call upon the man whose name had now become quite renowned.

This was just after Crockett's election to Congress, but before he had set out for Washington.