Litchfield enquirer., 1843-01-26
From the New York Union "REMINISCENCES OF THE AMERICAN
 PARLIAMENT.

I "A merrier man,
 1 Within the limit of becoming n,irth 1 never spent an hours talk withal." LoUcs LGbor Lost 1 The Hon. David Crockett of Tennessee
 was one ofthe many queer beings, who found their way to the United States Congress, on the occasion of Gen. Jackson's election tC the Presidency. IL is not now recollected al
 what time Col. Crockett first 'hung up his hat ut Browns Hotel, and responded saye' 1 or no, as the case might be, to the loud call 1 of Mir. Matthew St. Clair Clarke, or to the laundering tones of the late Mir. Walter s. Franklin.
 He was elected, however, through the in- tiuencc Of Gen. Jackson's popularity and was well to do,' in the estimation of the old hero. The General was not of opiaion that Davy was grest or very useful man but, as he knew him to be honest, it is said that Davy received letter from him. at the time he Was stumping it for the canvass, that settled at once, and inclined the independ- ent electors, to give him their unbought stuff. rages.
 When Davy made his first appearance on the great public stage at Washington he was regarded as an anomaly; and few there were who imagined for moment that Col. Crockett was destined to become a political lion. He was man of parts, it was conce- ded, on all hands and the same occasion was accompanied by the universal admis- sion that he possessed but few or the brighter ornaments that adds lustre to the character of the statesman.
 Sir Philip Dormer, afterwards Lord Ches. terteld, in his letters 10 his son, says of the isukeof Marlborough, that he was eminent ly iifiterate, wrote had English, and spelt worse and yet he possessed, in an eminent degree, all the grGces of the court and camp, and all the charms of a most fascinating elo- quence.
 There was slight difference between Col. Crockett and the Duke of Marlborough and although it may be true that their literary attanments were somewhat similar, there was but very little similitude in their display of the graces.
 Col. Crockett might, with great truth and justice, have adopted, as a motto for his ar morial and ancestral banners the avoWal of ono of old Dennie's tragedies:
 "I am plain commonwealth man, :.
 And do not love king, though he be good;' "
 for he most pertnnciously, abhorred and ah- iured every thing that savored of aristocrncy md royality.' Indeed, he carried this feeling to an utraiSm, and refused even 10 use a handkerchief, whilst performing necessary operation on his nasal organ. and invariably
 used his fingers because he had been inform that the democratic sans cullotteS did so, during the Reign of Terror. He was de- mocrat in the fullest and broadest sense of the term and acted with that party, in Con- gress and out of Congress, unlil the political events of the times led him astray, and he got into mongrel kind of company, and be. came kind of States Rights Whig-Judge White democrat.
 In the year 1885, a few friends assembled | at Washington, in the house of the Honor. able David Dickson, and nominate Judge White as a candidate for the Presidency The Hon. John Bell of Tennessee was the prime mover, the head and front of the eau. GUS ;-nnd, as he was at that time Speaker ot the United States House of Representatives, he possessed vasi influence over the minds of the gentlemen of the Tennessee delegation He persuaded them 10 attach themselves to | Judge White to withdraw from General Jackson and, in the fuliness of his san. guine zeal and ardent temperament, was un. able to impress or the mind u belief that the
 venerable and excellent Judge White could be elected President.
 Although Col. Crockett was decidedly oi 1 opinion that Mr. Bell was wrong in his cal
 cuIations. and was destined to witness theil
 entire and unqualified failure, he was sedu
 ced from his fealty, and espoused Judge
 White, and denounced General Jackson.
 This single act in the life of Col. Crockett proved most unfortunate, and lost him his election. Old Adam Huntsman-or' Old
 wooden legged Adam as he was called in Tennessee, happened to live in the Colonel's district, and in the emphatic and eloqucn,
 language of the Hon. Albert G. Hawes ot | Kentucky, he seized upon the occasion, and
 'hopped upon his back like load upon a
 June bug
 Defeated m his election, sour with himself
 and the people of his district, he adjourned
 Tennessee and according tO the chroni ciers of those days, turned up his nose to the
 voices that had constituted his firm consti
 tuency, and bade them go 10 h-l, whilst he
 went 10 Texas.
 | Arriving in Texas he was entrusted with q
 military command, and was at the bloody
 affair of the Alamo. Rumor, which in this
 case was legendary, represented him as hay. ing fought with fury and desperation, un. paralled in the history of herosm and chiv.
 airy. One of the sagacious historians of the l Alamo says that,
 'Afier the fight was done,' l the bloody and mangled corpse of the Col
 was dicovered cut all to pieces, with every
 feature destroyed,' and yet he was distinctly
 recognised and how, pray? Why, by the fact that large body of Mexican's upwards of fifty in number, lay dead around him, all of whom he had killed with his own single 1 right hand.'
 It could not be any other man thar the l Col. the Chronicle insisted, because all the rest of the victims of the Alamo had less
 number of carcases around them. That Col. Crockett was very brave man,