The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-07-02
Davy Crockett, the Second.

elect from Tennessee, who in many
of his striking original traits bears
great resemblance to the immortal
Davyt Crockett. The following is
from the pen of a special correspon-
dent of the Washington Star, who
accompanied the excursion of the
late St. Louis Congressional Con
vention to Texas:
cat Grand Junction we left the
rough diamond of the Congressional
party-the Hon. VIM. Crutchfeld,
the elected member from the Chat
tanooga District. Since the days of
Davy Crockett, Tennessee has always
managed to have at least one noun
taineer character in Congress; and
Crutchfeld, the latest, is said to re-
semble Crockett more in originality
and style than any Of the intervening
line. He is a sunburnt, wiry little
man, with foxy hair and whiskers,
and though, by report, of considera-
BILE means, wears the cheapest of
homespun suits, good deal frayed
at the edges, and with a pair of
heavy, well-greased cowhide brogans
that were the perpetual despair of
the Pullman boot-blacks. He is not
only a mighty hunter, like Crockett,
but is moreover a shrewd business
man. He built the "Crutchfeld
House." at Chattanooga, which was
sold during the war for $65,0O0 in
Confederate money, and the pro-
ceeds prudentIy turned at once into
real estate in the shape of valuable
farming lands. In the same prudent
way, Crutchfeld invested Confeder-
ate money as fast as it come into his
hands into tobacco. which, on the
advance of the Union troops, he
sold at $3.50 per pound in green
backs. Knowing the country and
the people thoroughly, he was of
great service to Gen. Sherman as a
scout. When he was put up for
Congress nobody supposed he stood
any chance of being elected, as the
District went Democratic at the pre-
vious election by some 5000 majori-
ty, but his neighbors took hold of
him and elected him by about 1900
majority.
CRUTCHFIELD's SPEECH.
Crutchfeld, by his quaint remarks
and racy narratives of mountaineer-
ing experiences, had made himself
vastly popular with the whole party,
and when he took the train at Grand
it was conceded that we
could have ''better spared a better
man. So there was a general de-
mand that he should make a parting
speech while the train waited, and
he mounted a platform barrow and
proceeded as follows:
"'Gen-tle-men--We air about to
part after having travelled about a
good deal hyar and thar, but j hope
to meet you next winter over thar at
W ashington. My friend Hyne, of
give me some good adj
vice how to keep from benz sea-sick
when we war down thar on the Gulf.
1t war to lay your head back and
ook up. l think, my friends, that
IN these mo-bi-ler times that will be
4 good thing to do when I get to
Washington city Tremendous ap-
olause. Gen -tle-men-We have
been through a great country. Ma
ooleon Bonny-part truly said, when
ne threw down the pen after deciding
Louisiana to the Americans, 'Thar's
,he heaviest blow Great Britain ever
got Applause Gen-tle-men-I
wish you could have gone up home
With me. 1 am the little dog in the
big rye up thar. I have got the
old woman, and the finest
'rats you ever sot eyes on. We've
rot the talIest mountains and the
oest whisky you ever sampled. [Ap-
'lause. Thar is Lookout Mountain,
rom which you can see four States
Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and
he drunken state. Gen-tle-men-If
'ver you'-here the engine gave a
mort and the train moved off. amidst |
oud cheers for Crutchfeld."