"Make room for Colonel Crockett!" said the usher at the White House, one evening, when the famous Congressman from the backwoods presented himself with a number of other callers. "Colonel Crockett makes room for himself!" was the exclamation of the Member as he strode into the room. The incident is typical of the man. Gifted by nature with an exhaustless fund of humor, born to privation, hardship and labor, trained, not in the school of books, but in the severer one of experience, he exhibited true manliness, honesty and bravery in all his words and actions. Colonel Crockett lacked the refinements which a truer education would have given him: he said and did things which cannot be held up as models for the youth of to-day ; but a profound sense of justice and of devotion to right permeated his entire life. Rough and uncultured though he was, his career contains much that is commendable and worthy of imitation. His moral heroism was displayed in his defiance of the vast powers of President Jackson when political ruin was the almost inevitable consequence. Of no man can it more truly be said that he preferred being right to being President. His personal daring was shown on many a battle-field; in the dim woods, when, singlehanded, he encountered the savage bear; in the swamps, when struggling against malaria, starvation, and the wily Creek warrior; when coursing on his mustang over the Texan prairie and pursued by the fierce Comanche; and when, day after day and night after night, he loaded and fired his deadly rifle from within the sulphurous walls of the Alamo, while Santa Anna and his hosts closed about him and his fellow-patriots in a circle of flame and fire, and when, panting, begrimed and bloody, he stood with the handful of survivors until he saw, like a lightning-flash, the treachery of the Mexican dictator, and, making a last desperate rush, with his drawn bowie-knife, he perished when within a pace of the traitor. Not a defender lived to tell the story of the sublime defence of the Alamo. Neither ancient nor modern history affords a grander exhibition of heroism than was shown on that crimson day when the blood of the Spartan band became the seed from which sprang Texan independence. Who has ever stood with bared head, and read without a quicker heart-throb, those words chiseled in the cenotaph in the Texan capital, and since destroyed by fire ?- "THERMOPYLÆ HAD ITS MESSENGER OF DEFEAT: THE ALAMO HAD NONE !"
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A Man of Depth,
By A.C. Patriot "Bill" (Houston) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Life of Colonel David Crockett, The (Paperback)
For several years I have used Chapter 13, entitled, "A Sensible and Timely View of a Certain Constitutional Question" as a part of a senior high school course. I have never seen a more concise, practical lesson on the evils of good legislators spending hard working peoples' money on the legislators' own whims. We never see in history as it is presented today, how knowledgeable and honest Congressman Crocket was. The book is more than worth the price just for the wealth of valuable knowledge in this one chapter. But the rest of the book will entertain you too! You owe it to yourself as a voter, if for no other reason, to have your own copy of this book. Be glad that you can buy this reprint. A few short years ago this gem could only be found at old book stores---if you were lucky!
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Sadly only one true gem between the covers,
This review is from: Life of Colonel David Crockett, The (Paperback)
I agree with the other reviewer and Chapter 13 is truly worthwhile. Especially at the present time where congress is dumping trillions of taxpayer dollars into failing companies that brought it upon themselves through greed and stupidity. Chapter 13 basically demonstrates that it is unconstitutional for them to do what they are currently doing, i.e. giving charity from our tax dollars.
The rest of the book, although well written, does not have anymore of these gems and is merely about his life. This fact kept me from giving 5 stars.
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