It also clearly shows the great questions which agitated the country at that time.

It can easily be perceived that, as a stump orator in the far West, Crockett might have exercised very considerable power.

This phase of his peculiar character is as worthy of consideration as any other.
"GENTLEMEN: "By the entire friendship of the citizens of Boston, as well as the particular friendship with which you have received me this evening, I have been brought to reflect on times that have gone by, and review a prejudice that has grown up with me, as well as thousands of my Western and Southern friends.

We have always been taught to look upon the people of New England as a selfish, cunning set of fellows, that was fed on fox-ears and thistle-tops; that cut their wisdom-teeth as soon as they were born; that made money by their wits, and held on to it by nature; that called cheatery mother-wit; that hung on to political power because they had numbers; that raised up manufactures to keep down the South and West; and, in fact, had so much of the devil in all their machinery, that they would neither lead nor drive, unless the load was going into their own cribs.

But I assure you, gentlemen, I begin to think different of you, and I think I see a good many good reasons for so doing.
"I don't mean that because I eat your bread and drink your liquor, that I feel so.