I Have Suffered My Self To Be

I'm That Same David Crockett, Fresh From The Backwoods, Half-horse, Half-alligator, A Little Touched With The Snapping Turtle; Can Wade The Mississippi, Leap The Ohio, Ride Upon A Streak Of Lightning, And Slip Without A Scratch Down A Honey Locust [tree].

I Have Always Supported Measures And Principles And Not Men.

Although Our Great Man At The Head Of The Nation, Has Changed His Course, I Will Not Change Mine.

Sorrow, It Is Said, Will Make Even An Oyster Feel Poetical. I Never Tried My Hand At That Sort Of Writing But On This Particular Occasion Such Was My State Of Feeling, That I Began To Fancy Myself Inspired; So I Took Pen In Hand, And As Usual I Went Ahead.

The Enemy Fought With Savage Fury, And Met Death With All Its Horrors, Without Shrinking Or Complaining: Not One Asked To Be Spared, But Fought As Long As They Could Stand Or Sit.