He had been so flattered that it is probable that he fully expected to be chosen President of the United States.

There were two great parties then dividing the country, the Democrats and the Whigs.

The great object of each was to find an available candidate, no matter how unfit for the office.

The leaders wished to elect a President who would be, like the Queen of England, merely the ornamental figure-head of the ship of state, while their energies should propel and guide the majestic fabric.

For a time some few thought it possible that in the popularity of the great bear-hunter such a candidate might be found.
Crockett, upon his return home, resumed his deerskin leggins, his fringed hunting-shirt, his fox-skin cap, and shouldering his rifle, plunged, as he thought, with his original zest, into the cheerless, tangled, marshy forest which surrounded him.