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To: DannyTN; Huck
There is no record in the congressional record of Davy Crockett ever saying stuff like this, and I believe there are some votes to the contrary.

As Huck points out, Gales and Seaton were the chroniclers of record at the time through their "Register of Debates". The Register of debates is available online and information obtained through Wikipedia indicates the story as written may be apocryphal, but based on an actual floor debate and vote in 1828. The pertinent pages of the "Register of Debates" are as follows:

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...beginning at the lower right of the first image. While not the same exact set of circumstances, it shows Crockett speaking out against a similar issue and later voting against it (he's listed in the column of "NAYS".

So, yes, there is a record of "Crockett ever saying stuff like this". As to votes to the contrary, I'm not about to do that laborious a search, but this points to one instance where his vote was not contrary...

14 posted on 03/23/2009 8:22:21 AM PDT by bcsco (Obama says "Buy", investors say "Bye")
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To: bcsco

Thanks for digging that up. Your conclusion matches what I wrote in my notes about it at the time. The details were changed, perhaps synthesized into one for the purpose of storytelling, and certainly embellished with details we couldn’t possibly know, but the basic concepts are based on events that did occur. Nice work pulling that stuff up so fast.


18 posted on 03/23/2009 8:34:02 AM PDT by Huck ("He that lives on hope will die fasting"- Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac)
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To: bcsco

That was AMAZING work. Thanks!


19 posted on 03/23/2009 8:36:46 AM PDT by Little Ray (Do we have a Plan B?)
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