In both places he spoke quite at length.

And all who heard him were surprised at the power he displayed.

Though his speech was rude and unpolished, the clearness of his views, and the intelligence he manifested, caused the journals generally to speak of him in quite a different strain from that which they had been accustomed to use.
Probably never did a man make so much intellectual progress, in the course of a few months, as David Crockett had made in that time.

His wonderful memory of names, dates, facts, all the intricacies of statistics, was such, that almost any statesman might be instructed by his addresses, and not many men could safely encounter him in argument.
The views he presented upon the subject of the Constitution, finance, internal improvements, etc., were very surprising, when one considers the limited education he had enjoyed.

At the close of these agitating scenes he touchingly writes: "In a short time I set out for my own home; yes, my own home, my own soil, my humble dwelling, my own family, my own hearts, my ocean of love and affection, which neither circumstances nor time can dry up.
Here, like the wearied bird, let me settle down for a while, and shut out the world." But hunting bears had lost its charms for Crockett.