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To: Chapita
Chapita me lad...

I haven't been able to locate any record of this speech in the Congressional Record for the periods 1827-1830 or 1832-1834 (the periods Mr. Crockett served in Congress).

63 posted on 01/23/2002 1:33:01 PM PST by Poohbah
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To: Poohbah
Maybe it is a bogus story! My point is that it does have a lot of references and has been used by a whole lot of different entities.

We should all know by now that history can be manipulated by any agenda; and sometimes we don't have to wait for it to have occurred before our births.

66 posted on 01/23/2002 1:38:49 PM PST by Chapita
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To: Poohbah
Can you find this?

From the Senate of the United States: “While we devoutly join you in offering our thanks to Almighty God for the return to health of our cities, and for the general prosperity of our county; we cannot refrain from lamenting that the arts and calumnies of factious and designing men, have excited open rebellion a second time in Pennsylvania, and thereby compelled the employment of a military force to aid the civil authority in the execution of the laws. We rejoice that your vigilance, energy and well timed exertions, have crushed so daring an opposition, and prevented the spreading of such treasonable combinations.”

If you can, I would say that your search capabilities vis-à-vis the congressional record are commendable and noteworthy and I would accept your inability to find Crockett’s speech as refutation of the old axiom “absence of proof is not proof of absence.”

150 posted on 01/28/2002 7:38:51 PM PST by Positive
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