My Tongue Speak What My Heart Thinks.

I Have Suffered My Self To Be Politically Sacrificed To Save My Country From Ruin And Disgrace And If I Am Never A Gain Elected I Will Have The Gratification To Know That I Have Done My Duty.

I Would Rather Be Beaten And Be A Man Than To Be Elected And Be A Little Puppy Dog. I Have Always Supported Measures And Principles And Not Men. I Have Acted Fearless[ly] And Independent And I Never Will Regret My Course. I Would Rather Be Politically Buried Than To Be Hypocritically Immortalized.

I Also Told Them Of The Manner In Which I Had Been Knocked Down And Dragged Out, And That I Didn't Consider It A Fair Fight Any How They Could Fix It. I Put The Ingredients In The Cup Pretty Strong I Tell You, And I Concluded My Speech By Telling Them That I Was Done With Politics For The Present, And They Might All Go To Hell, And I Would Go To Texas.

If I Could Rest Anywhere, It Would Be In Arkansas, Where The Men Are Of The Real Half-horse, Half-alligator Breed Such As Grows Nowhere Else On The Face Of The Universal Earth.

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].