Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1855-02-27

/ through Hickman, q lew days S.nce, on their
way to Texas, to get possession of portion
of the land donated by the State Of Texas to
the heirs of those who fell at the battle of
Alamo, during the struggle for independence.
The biographies Of Davy Crockett---the
almanacs with pictures of hunters and ami
mails, wild cats and panthers-were charm
ing reading for our boyhood. Crockett,
drinking water out of the Mississippi, Che
scorned anything smaller,) or poking bis
knife under IL bears ribs, or telling Congress
Jokes at house-raising, was better than
Arabian Nights for Young American enter
tainment. We begin to take Davy Crockett
for a myth an impersonatlon Of the broad,
strong, energetic, srlf-rclant, western char
acser. and Ben Hardin as his s.Poor Rich
ard" We had never seen anybody that had
seen the Identical man.
In this unc nty came our appointment
in January, 1919, by Bishop Pain to New
Orieans. On the way we learned that son
Of Davv Crockett was one Of the official
members of the church At the railroad he
met Us in person TO give welcome and con-
duct US TO his house for home, till the par
sonage could be fitted up. And home it
was. But whit a contrast in the actual man
TO the one We had pictured! Small Of stat
ure, but 1.-THE and we'll knit; light, thin hair,
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terial, fine grained. In manners. easy and
genteel, without effort. The only wild cat
realization was the keen gray eyes, wide
apart, that wcpt at al that was tender and
pitpous and touching, laughed in jov, and
flashed fercely und indignant excitement.
Such was our first acquaintance in New Or
leans such one Of tho stewards, and class
leaders, and superintendent of the Sabbath
| School, and ready for every other good work.
A gooi name too-John Wesley Crockett
The veritable son of Davy.
! n his parlor hung portrait Of his father,
taken by a master hand. There were the
$ rong features, the marked character. The
attitude was not chosen as seen in Cork's
gtllery--dressed IN hunting shirt. surround
ed oy hounds and horns, rifle in hand, bowie
at he belt and a cap of con skin. 1t was
subdned into civilization, for it was painted
af er D.yy had been 70 Congress. There is
no portr it in the Land we would rather be in
possession Of.
Finding that Davy G, ockett was fact. we
inquired f those lalcs Of his doings AMI say
ings were also facts. Here we ran too ca
geFly upon a tender point. The son was SEN
sitive about thpse car icatures that made his
father the type Of the western frontierSman
they hid BEEN pamphlet and circulate ed 10
had marked traits. and in that direction
but they h,d been exaggerated in CATERING TO
public taste. As to panthers and wild cats
AMI camp huns-that was in the main true.
as ne, a younger son, hld killed some him
self. But Dtvy Crockett, though entering |
public life und II the great and usual d sad |
vanthges resulting from a lack Of early cdu.
cation in the w ST, was shrewd and oh, rv-
ing, and had sense of prepri-ty. Even be-
fore eong to Congress he was the counsellor I
of his nsighbors, wrote their wills md di | |
such matters; and read his family Bible on
Sunday.
But the ruling passion led him on to DEATH
The country got too thcky settled. The old |
man lon ed for the freshn s. or adventure. |
and ut the Alamo he found more than he bar |
gainel for. Attached to the watch chain CT |
the son, we often remarked treasure. |, |
was seal cut from the flint of the old |
hero's Alamo mu>ket. The love of bold ad-
venture runs in he blood. In the first expe-
d tioa Of Lop against Cuba, the Cardenas
bu lets fell fast ami tn OK around the feet of /
or nds n Of Davy. He ran away from
his father, in this city,t to join the fray HIS
hers some day. may be noticed in a newspa-
per, going over to The gem of the Antilles on
Il sim;la claim. May he he worthy of hs
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MIR. Crocketts popular manners and capac-
Ity and personal worth opened to him IN nv
Offices of honor and emo.um ut. TIL pres
tige Of the n me, too, was fas orable. Inde d.
h had TOO many Offices. Anxious to OBJ igc
his friends, and Of extreme stngu nous tenn
permanent, he was led into involved engage
IN nts that divided his attention, cunhicted
with his interests, and, in the end, brought
emba EASEMENT upon b MISE aad others. The
phiegm,tlc business mans standard i not the
one to est mate him BY. Never was the dark
ness 50 dep bnt b, saw light ahead, and
spoke encouragingly to his friends. The
kindness OF his ne TT, the purity Of his pur-
pose, the genial light of his mind, are refresh
Ing memories to as. A few ye.rs ago he
left New Orr ans for his nat We State, Tn
nessee. and shortly after leaving, died. In
the darkness Of deaths solitary pa h w
doubt not h. saw light ahead A large and
beloved family were berraved. May the an
gel of mercy keep the door Of heir dwelling!
With these hoaghts-sugg sted by news
paragr lph clipped from a western paper
have we lndulged our own feelings, We hope
to the pleasure OF our readers, and in trll.u e
10 one whose last days We're snadowed by
regions of SO m and cloud.
The above is takt from the New Orleans
Christian. Alvocate. Thinking it NAV not
Prov undressing TO our readers, we gath
IF from ano her source, the following par ,
tlcnlars respecting F.
Csockc!t's Death.
Colonel Crockett, surrounded and clos ly '
pursued by number of the enemy, retreated ,
INFO church, and stationed himself in J
niche in the corner, telling them rs they ap-
preached. When sons eight or zen Of them
ware liH hafnra hin, ga -. - 80. $780,. q