estified as follows:

"I dined at the President's, at the time alluded to, in company with
you, and I had, I recollect, a good deal of conversation with you. Your
behavior there was, I thought, perfectly becoming and proper. And I do
not recollect, or believe, that you said or did anything resembling the
newspaper-account."

Two other members of Congress were equally explicit in their testimony.

During Crockett's first two sessions in Congress he got along very
smoothly, cooperating generally with what was called the Jackson party.
In 1829 he was again reelected by an overwhelming majority. On the 4th
of March of this year, Andrew Jackson was inaugurated President of the
United States. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more honest,
conscientious man in Congress than David Crockett. His celebrated
motto, "Be sure that you are right, and then go ahead," seemed ever to
animate him. He could neither be menaced or bribed to support any
measure which he thought to be wrong. Ere long he found it necessary to
oppose some of Jackson's measures. We will let him tell the story in
his own truthful words:

"Soon after the commencement of this second term, I saw, or thought I
did, that it was expected of me that I would bow to the name of Andrew
Jackson, and follow him in all his motions, and windings, and turnings,
even at the expense of my conscience and judgment. Such a thing was new
to me, and a total stranger to my principles. I know'd well enough,
though, that if I didn't 'hurrah' for his name, the hue and cry was to
be raised against me, and I was to be sacrificed, if possible. His
famous, or rather I should say his infamous Indian bill was brought
forward, and I opposed it from the purest motives in the world. Several
of my colleagues got around me, and told me how well they loved me, and
that I was ruining myself. They said this was a favorite measure of the
President, and I ought to go for it. I told them I believed it was a
wicked, unjust measure, and that I should go against it, let the cost
to myself be what it might; that I was willing to go with General
Jackson in everything that I believed was honest and right; but,
further than this, I wouldn't go for him or any other man in the whole
creation.

"I had been elected by a majority of three thousand five hundred and
eighty-five votes, and I believed they were honest men, and wouldn't
want me to vote for any unjust notion, to please Jackson or any one
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