1 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:11,159 Speaker 1: It's that time. Time, time, time, luck and load. The 2 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:13,760 Speaker 1: Michael Verie Show is on the air. 3 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 2: I'm going to prepare to offend a number of folks 4 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:31,200 Speaker 2: with what I'm about to say, and I want to 5 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:34,559 Speaker 2: make sure you understand before you email me. I'm okay 6 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:39,600 Speaker 2: that you're offended. Okay, I'm okay if I tell you 7 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:41,600 Speaker 2: I think Earl Campbell's the greatest running back in the 8 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:44,640 Speaker 2: history of the NFL. Because I love my love you Blue, 9 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 2: and you say that's offensive. I love Walter Payton or 10 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 2: OJ Simpson or Jim Brown or whoever that might Bury Sanders, 11 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:55,240 Speaker 2: whoever that might be. 12 00:00:57,560 --> 00:00:59,960 Speaker 3: I didn't say that expecting you to like what I 13 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 3: I had to say. 14 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:08,040 Speaker 2: You tuned in, and you should hope. I'm honest. If 15 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:11,400 Speaker 2: you never disagree with the opinion of a host and 16 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 2: you listen to them every day, I got news for you. 17 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:18,959 Speaker 2: If two people always agree, one of them is not necessary. 18 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:22,720 Speaker 2: And I got more news for you. If you never 19 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 2: disagree with a single person, I mean, with a host 20 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 2: on a single issue, and you think that is an 21 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:35,200 Speaker 2: endorsement of how great they are, it's not. That is 22 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 2: a sign that they are reading the wind. They are 23 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:41,240 Speaker 2: reading the tea leaves. They are telling you what you 24 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 2: want to hear. So I will tell you this. I 25 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 2: believe that there is an attack coordinated not necessarily across 26 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:57,960 Speaker 2: the religions, but by other religions against Christians in this country. 27 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 2: I believe that, and I believe it comes from people 28 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 2: feeling left out if we talk about Christ or the 29 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:16,119 Speaker 2: Bible and our faith because they're not part of it. Well, 30 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:18,880 Speaker 2: guess what if I find out at the spetzel Fest 31 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:23,280 Speaker 2: in Texas that they've been doing polka dancing last weekend 32 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 2: and maybe I wasn't invited, I don't get my feelings hurt. 33 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 3: That's what they do. 34 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:37,240 Speaker 2: If in a public gathering people want to celebrate their family, 35 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:40,960 Speaker 2: their tradition, their alma mater, even though I'm not part 36 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:42,680 Speaker 2: of any of those, That's okay. 37 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:44,960 Speaker 3: I'm a big boy. 38 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 2: And in a pluralistic society, which is what everybody claims 39 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:52,840 Speaker 2: they want. So you don't have these problems in China. 40 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 2: You don't have these problems in Japan where you have 41 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:04,280 Speaker 2: complete homogeneity, You've got complete dominance by a single race culture. 42 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:08,360 Speaker 2: And what little bit you look at the Wigers in China, 43 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:12,600 Speaker 2: the Muslims, and how the China, how the problems they've 44 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:13,080 Speaker 2: had there. 45 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:15,360 Speaker 3: But I want to get back to the point here. 46 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:21,240 Speaker 2: When I'm appreciative that the President has taken up this issue, 47 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 2: and I am tired of people who I think agree 48 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:27,800 Speaker 2: with him but are too chicken to say it publicly. 49 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:31,359 Speaker 2: If you feel the need to say, hey, if you're 50 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:33,360 Speaker 2: Jewish and offended, Hey if you're a Muslim and offended, 51 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 2: Hey if you're Atheist and offended. Hey if you're Hindu 52 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 2: and offended. I hope you're not offended. But why are 53 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 2: you worried whether they're offended? Do you believe what you 54 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 2: believe only as long as no one else is offended. 55 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 2: So if you're spending more time worried about offending people 56 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 2: who believe in the supremacy of their God. 57 00:03:58,680 --> 00:03:59,400 Speaker 3: Then you do. 58 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 2: Practicing and expressing your own faith, then maybe they are 59 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 2: bigger believers than you are. It is not your job 60 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:18,479 Speaker 2: to coddle those who do not share your beliefs. We 61 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 2: don't murder others for not sharing our beliefs. Do you 62 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 2: think there are any other religions in the world who do. 63 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:28,719 Speaker 2: We don't rape the women of those who do not 64 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:32,279 Speaker 2: share our beliefs. When we conquer their lands or defeat 65 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:40,159 Speaker 2: them on the battlefield. We worship our God in our way. Now, 66 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:43,120 Speaker 2: there are a number of Christians. See when Christians are 67 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 2: in the majority, they're very guilt ridden. They're not comfortable 68 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:50,760 Speaker 2: with this, kind of like the Republicans. They don't like 69 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 2: to be in power. They'd rather be out of power. 70 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 2: We are better when persecuted. But when you hear people 71 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:01,719 Speaker 2: say President Trump shouldn't talk about the Christians faith, that's 72 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 2: a violation of church and state. If you ever learn 73 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 2: anything from me ever, in the time that you listen 74 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:15,280 Speaker 2: for one year or one hundred, let it be this. 75 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 2: Everything you know about the separation of church and state 76 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:26,240 Speaker 2: is wrong. Of the ten commandments the first and they're 77 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:29,240 Speaker 2: laid out in Exodus twenty and Deuteronomy. 78 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:33,679 Speaker 3: I think it's four or five Deuteronomy five. 79 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:44,000 Speaker 2: The first commandment, thou shalt have no other gods before me. Well, 80 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:48,279 Speaker 2: you're a white supremacist. No, I am not a white 81 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 2: supremacist in the sense that I'm trying to subjugate other people. 82 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:56,480 Speaker 2: But am I proud of my people? Am I proud 83 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:58,039 Speaker 2: of people who look like me? Am I proud of 84 00:05:58,040 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 2: my heritage? Am I proud. 85 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 3: Of the colure. 86 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:05,360 Speaker 2: Yes I am, and your attempt to make me ashamed 87 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 2: of it that works on other people, not on me. 88 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 3: But here is let me get to this quickly. 89 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 2: The idea of the separation of church and state did 90 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:20,159 Speaker 2: not mean that the church will not be involved in 91 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:25,280 Speaker 2: the state. It meant that the state will not be 92 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:28,839 Speaker 2: involved in the church. And what happened is that the 93 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:32,919 Speaker 2: King of England was having problems in his marriage, couldn't 94 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:36,160 Speaker 2: get what he wanted from the pope. So he declared, 95 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:39,919 Speaker 2: I'm the King of the Church of England, my own church. 96 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:41,159 Speaker 3: Pope begone. 97 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:45,440 Speaker 2: I'll issue the rulings, I'll issue the indulgences in. 98 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:47,480 Speaker 3: Charge for him. So here is. 99 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:50,920 Speaker 2: Jefferson wrote a letter to the Danbury Baptist and they 100 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:55,680 Speaker 2: were worried about this. And he says, believing with you 101 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:59,039 Speaker 2: that religion is a matter which lies solely between man 102 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:02,600 Speaker 2: and his God, that he owes account to none other 103 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:05,840 Speaker 2: for his faith or his worship. That the legitimate powers 104 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 2: of government reach actions only and not opinions. I contemplate 105 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:14,920 Speaker 2: with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people 106 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:19,120 Speaker 2: which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting 107 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 2: an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, 108 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 2: thus building a wall of separation between church and state. 109 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 2: What he is saying is that Congress that in our 110 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:39,360 Speaker 2: founding documents. In that founding document we said, Congress shall 111 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:44,080 Speaker 2: make no law respecting an establishment of religion. Congress shall 112 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:47,400 Speaker 2: not determine who is and isn't a Christian, or a Jew, 113 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:50,960 Speaker 2: or a Hindu or Muslim. Congress shall make no laws 114 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 2: relating to that, nor shall Congress prohibit the free expression thereof. 115 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:01,840 Speaker 2: You are free to worship how whoever you worship, and 116 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:05,560 Speaker 2: government shall not get in the way. But just as 117 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 2: every other organization APAC, the NRA, the Farmers Association, the 118 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:15,920 Speaker 2: Church is more than able to be a part of 119 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 2: our government, and our founding documents have Christian biblical statements 120 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:24,920 Speaker 2: all over. Be not a shamed Christians any law. 121 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:31,920 Speaker 1: The Michael Berries Show continues on this day in nineteen 122 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 1: fifty five, which makes it seventy years ago. 123 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 3: Love His Grief was. 124 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:40,439 Speaker 2: There were four different versions of this name about it 125 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 2: of Davy Crockett on the market and. 126 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:47,600 Speaker 3: Lose on the charts, believe it or not. 127 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:54,520 Speaker 2: One was by Walter Schumann, one was by the Great Tennessee. 128 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 3: Ernie Ford. 129 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 2: One was by the best Parker, but you knew that 130 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:08,000 Speaker 2: already because he started the movie the fourth You get 131 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:13,360 Speaker 2: extra extra credit lanyap on top of lanyap if you 132 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:14,920 Speaker 2: knew that it's Bill Hayes. 133 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:16,960 Speaker 3: His has went to number one. 134 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:23,800 Speaker 2: And uh. I love the story of David Crockett, but 135 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 2: not for the reason that you might think. 136 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 3: My youngest son is named Crockett. 137 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 2: Crockett Marcos Berry Marcos one of his Ethiopian names. We 138 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:40,560 Speaker 2: kept our children's Ethiopian names as part of their overall identity, 139 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:44,400 Speaker 2: even though we gave them names that we chose as 140 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:47,640 Speaker 2: their sort of Christian name, the name that they go by. 141 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:50,720 Speaker 2: But Crockett was so named after a hero of mine. 142 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:53,920 Speaker 2: We went by the name David Crockett, but legend has 143 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 2: him at Davy Crockett. I don't know that it matters today. 144 00:09:57,240 --> 00:10:00,280 Speaker 2: David Crockett who died at the Alamo, and as a child, 145 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:04,080 Speaker 2: I was as inspired as I am today by the 146 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:07,840 Speaker 2: men who fought at the Mission in San Antonio against 147 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:13,960 Speaker 2: the Mexicans and died valiantly. Davy Crockett's a great story 148 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 2: because of the you may all go to Hell. I'm 149 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 2: going to Texas story he was. He was one of 150 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 2: the first, after Daniel Boone, one of the first true 151 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:33,800 Speaker 2: American heroes for some reason other than being a president 152 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 2: or a general. He was Colonel David Crockett. But he 153 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:40,920 Speaker 2: was a hero for his exploits. He once showed up 154 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:45,520 Speaker 2: in New York at a Broadway musical about the exploits 155 00:10:45,559 --> 00:10:53,720 Speaker 2: of Davy Crockett. But the reason I adore his memory 156 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 2: in his legacy is more than all of those things, 157 00:10:57,120 --> 00:10:59,840 Speaker 2: although of course they add to them. It is a 158 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:04,160 Speaker 2: story that's kind of Ron Paul in the telling, and 159 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:08,079 Speaker 2: not many people like this, very few people. Indeed, it's 160 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:10,800 Speaker 2: because of the speech he gave, and that speech came 161 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:16,959 Speaker 2: to be known as not yours to give, not yours 162 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 2: to give. Say that out loud, because you're gonna want 163 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:21,200 Speaker 2: to look this up, because most of you probably don't 164 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:23,920 Speaker 2: know this story about David Crockett, because you think of 165 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:26,240 Speaker 2: David Crockett as the legend and killed him a bar 166 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 2: when he was only three, and dying at the Alamo 167 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:34,000 Speaker 2: and the Coonskin Cap and all those are wonderful aspects 168 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 2: to the legend of David Crockett. 169 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:39,360 Speaker 3: But while David Crockett was in Congress. 170 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:45,520 Speaker 2: There was a request for the widow of a celebrated 171 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 2: naval officer, and Congress was ready right there on the spot. Boom, 172 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:52,400 Speaker 2: let's give her a bunch of money from the public treasury. 173 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 2: And David Crockett did something very brave. He stood on principle, 174 00:11:57,720 --> 00:11:59,200 Speaker 2: because surely with the old woman. 175 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:00,959 Speaker 3: Here, are gonna. 176 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:02,720 Speaker 2: Give some money out of the federal government. Federal government's 177 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 2: got it, and we're in charge of it. We're the appropriators. 178 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:07,120 Speaker 2: That's what Congress does. So let's give her some money. 179 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:09,440 Speaker 2: And there was quite the fervor. Yeah, let's give her 180 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:11,760 Speaker 2: some money. It's the people's money. Who cares, and we'd 181 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:15,760 Speaker 2: give it to her. We'll look like stars and Davy Crockett, 182 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 2: Colonel Crockett stood up and said, I have as much 183 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:22,880 Speaker 2: respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much 184 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:26,040 Speaker 2: sympathy for the sufferings of the living, if suffering there be, 185 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:27,240 Speaker 2: as any. 186 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:27,880 Speaker 3: Man in this house. 187 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:30,880 Speaker 2: But we must not permit our respect for the dead, 188 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:34,360 Speaker 2: or our sympathy for a part of the living, to 189 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 2: lead us to an act of injustice to the. 190 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:41,000 Speaker 3: Balance of the living. That means everybody else. 191 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:44,240 Speaker 2: I will not go into an argument to prove that 192 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:47,959 Speaker 2: Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an 193 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:52,439 Speaker 2: act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. 194 00:12:53,559 --> 00:12:56,760 Speaker 2: We have the right as individuals to give away as 195 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:59,880 Speaker 2: much of our own money as we please. In chair, 196 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:04,080 Speaker 2: but as members of Congress, we have no right so 197 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:07,200 Speaker 2: to appropriate a dollar of. 198 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:08,760 Speaker 3: The public money. 199 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 2: We cannot, without the grossest corruption, appropriate this money as 200 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:17,199 Speaker 2: the payment of a debt. We have not the semblance 201 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:22,720 Speaker 2: of authority to appropriate it as a charity. Mister Speaker, 202 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:25,040 Speaker 2: I have said we have the right to give as 203 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:28,079 Speaker 2: much money of our own as we please. I am 204 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:31,679 Speaker 2: the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for 205 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:34,520 Speaker 2: this bill. But I will give one week's pay to 206 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:37,240 Speaker 2: the object that's the widow, And if every member of 207 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:40,280 Speaker 2: Congress will do the same, it will amount to more 208 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:43,360 Speaker 2: than the bill asks. He then went on to say, 209 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 2: in quoting a constituent, the people have delegated to Congress 210 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:50,920 Speaker 2: by the Constitution, the power to do certain things. To 211 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 2: do these, it is authorized to collect and pay monies, 212 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 2: and for nothing else. Everything beyond this is usurpation and 213 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:03,080 Speaker 2: a violation of the Constitution. Now there is more to 214 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:06,280 Speaker 2: this story, and it will require the next segment for 215 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:08,720 Speaker 2: me to get to it. There is more to this 216 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:15,560 Speaker 2: story than what David Crockett did. What he did, the 217 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:19,600 Speaker 2: action he took was an act of courage, real courage. 218 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:21,920 Speaker 3: The reason he. 219 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:26,840 Speaker 2: Did it is an act of incredible humility. And it 220 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:29,200 Speaker 2: just goes to show that as we walk through this world, 221 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:30,480 Speaker 2: we make mistakes. 222 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 3: We all do. And it's not whether we make mistakes. 223 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:37,280 Speaker 2: We endeavor not to, but it is whether or not 224 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:40,400 Speaker 2: we learn from them, whether we learn from the things 225 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 2: we do the mistakes we make. And Davy Crockett went 226 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:49,200 Speaker 2: on to explain his vote, and I will read you 227 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:51,840 Speaker 2: the rest of his speech where he does that it's 228 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:57,000 Speaker 2: incredibly powerful. Well before we do that, I will say 229 00:14:57,440 --> 00:15:01,680 Speaker 2: that you will find many times that the greatest acts 230 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:03,960 Speaker 2: of valor, and this is the part that I think 231 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:08,520 Speaker 2: people miss are typically not celebrated by those around them. 232 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:13,560 Speaker 2: People who stand on principle are typically not honored and 233 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:17,920 Speaker 2: celebrated for standing on principle. When Ted Cruse went to 234 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 2: the United States Senate, I had worked very hard to 235 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:21,640 Speaker 2: put him there, as did a lot of other people, 236 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:24,680 Speaker 2: and when he got there, he would lose votes ninety 237 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:28,160 Speaker 2: nine to one. Lindsey Graham said that there were members 238 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 2: in the Senate who wanted to murder him. 239 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:32,920 Speaker 3: Send that into a hot microphone. There are senators who 240 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:34,320 Speaker 3: wanted to murder him. 241 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:37,760 Speaker 2: And John McCain said, it tells you how popular he 242 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 2: is that he loses votes ninety nine to one. But 243 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:44,600 Speaker 2: I went back and read those votes, and they were 244 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 2: issues that the Senate had rubber stamped. They were swamp 245 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:53,280 Speaker 2: issues and the concept was as long as everybody hangs together, 246 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 2: we don't hang by ourselves. And so what Ted Cruz 247 00:15:58,040 --> 00:15:59,840 Speaker 2: was doing was making a name for himself with the 248 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:03,080 Speaker 2: as It's constituency with Tea Party voters, which which became 249 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:04,080 Speaker 2: Maga vote. 250 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:10,880 Speaker 3: But he wasn't very popular. He wasn't popular at all. Anyway, 251 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:12,120 Speaker 3: I'll read you that letter coming. 252 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 1: Up Aptain something wong, Well, something must be right. You're 253 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:21,520 Speaker 1: listening to Michael Berry, Okay. 254 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:25,120 Speaker 2: So I told you that David Crockett, while the widow 255 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:29,480 Speaker 2: had been brought forward before the Congress. Her husband, a 256 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:32,840 Speaker 2: celebrated naval officer who had passed, and here she was 257 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:37,760 Speaker 2: the widow and she wanted some money, and they said, oh, yes, 258 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:40,880 Speaker 2: your husband was a great man. Let's let's write a 259 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 2: check from the Treasury to you, David Crockett said, you 260 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:48,720 Speaker 2: can't do that. You don't have the power. We do 261 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:54,480 Speaker 2: not have the power to appropriate charity. And by the way, 262 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:58,880 Speaker 2: we can give charity of our own money. 263 00:16:59,160 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 3: And I'll start. 264 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:03,600 Speaker 2: I'm the poorest fella in this Congress, and I'll give 265 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:06,480 Speaker 2: a week of my pay, and if every one of 266 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:09,760 Speaker 2: you will do the same, we'll give her more money 267 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:13,440 Speaker 2: than you're trying to give her from the Treasury. 268 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:16,080 Speaker 3: Well, as you might imagine, nobody joined him in that offer. 269 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:19,600 Speaker 2: But as I told you, that's not the fact that 270 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:21,520 Speaker 2: he did such a principal thing is impressive. 271 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:25,040 Speaker 3: The fact of how he came to do. 272 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:30,600 Speaker 2: That, that's the story I think makes this really really special. 273 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:37,840 Speaker 2: And I'll read to you from his speech, he said, 274 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:42,199 Speaker 2: it's not during his speech. This was later he was 275 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:46,120 Speaker 2: asked by a friend, why did you do that? My god, 276 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:50,560 Speaker 2: everybody hated you for that, And he said, well, several 277 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:53,200 Speaker 2: years ago, I was one evening standing on the steps 278 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:55,760 Speaker 2: of the Capitol with some other members of Congress when 279 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 2: our attention was attracted by a great light over in Georgetown, 280 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:03,679 Speaker 2: evidently a large fire. We jumped into a hack and 281 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:06,399 Speaker 2: drove over as fast as we could, in spite of 282 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:08,680 Speaker 2: all that could be done. In spite of all that 283 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:11,959 Speaker 2: could be done, many houses were burned, and many families 284 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:14,480 Speaker 2: made homeless. And besides, some of them had lost all 285 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:17,680 Speaker 2: but the clothes they had on. The weather was very cold, 286 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:19,880 Speaker 2: and when I saw so many women and children suffering, 287 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:22,200 Speaker 2: I felt that something ought to be done for them. 288 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 2: The next morning a bill was introduced appropriating twenty thousand 289 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:29,200 Speaker 2: dollars for their relief. We put aside all other business 290 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:30,640 Speaker 2: and rushed it through as soon as. 291 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:32,120 Speaker 3: It could be done. 292 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:34,480 Speaker 2: The next summer, when it began to be time to 293 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:38,760 Speaker 2: think about the election, I concluded I would not sorry. 294 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:42,320 Speaker 2: I concluded I would take a scout around among the 295 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:45,639 Speaker 2: boys of my district. I had no opposition there, but 296 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:47,639 Speaker 2: as the election was some time off, I didn't know 297 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:50,240 Speaker 2: what might turn up. When riding one day and a 298 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:52,639 Speaker 2: part of my district in which I was more of 299 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:55,200 Speaker 2: a stranger than any other, I saw a man in 300 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:58,640 Speaker 2: a field plowing and coming toward the road. I gauged 301 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:00,640 Speaker 2: my gate so that we should meet as he came 302 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:03,240 Speaker 2: to the fence. As he came up, I spoke to 303 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:07,040 Speaker 2: the man. He replied politely, but as I thought rather coldly. 304 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:10,760 Speaker 2: I began, well, friend, I'm one of those unfortunate beings 305 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:15,239 Speaker 2: called candidates, and yes I know who you are, your 306 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:18,159 Speaker 2: Colonel Crockett. I have seen you once before and voted 307 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:20,880 Speaker 2: for you the last time you were elected. I suppose 308 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:23,280 Speaker 2: you're out electioneering now, but you'd better not waste your 309 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:26,119 Speaker 2: time or mine. I shall not vote for you again. 310 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:30,440 Speaker 2: This was a sock dollarger. I begged him to tell 311 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:35,200 Speaker 2: me what was the matter. Well, Colonel, it is hardly 312 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:38,920 Speaker 2: worthwhile to waste time or words upon it. I do 313 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:40,880 Speaker 2: not see how it can be mended. But you gave 314 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:43,840 Speaker 2: a vote last winter, which shows that either you have 315 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:47,840 Speaker 2: not capacity to understand the Constitution, or that you are wanting, 316 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:50,639 Speaker 2: in the honesty and firmness to be guided by it. 317 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:54,000 Speaker 2: In either case, you are not the man to represent me. 318 00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:57,040 Speaker 2: But I beg your pardon for expressing it that way. 319 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:00,080 Speaker 2: I did not, atend intend to avail myself of the 320 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:02,960 Speaker 2: privilege of the constituent to speak plainly to a candidate 321 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:06,440 Speaker 2: for the purpose of insulting or wounding you. I intend, 322 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:08,800 Speaker 2: by it only to say that you are understanding of 323 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:13,639 Speaker 2: the Constitution is very different from mine, and I will 324 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:17,159 Speaker 2: say to you what But for my rudeness, I should 325 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:18,320 Speaker 2: not have said that. 326 00:20:18,359 --> 00:20:19,560 Speaker 3: I believe you to be honest. 327 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:22,959 Speaker 2: But an understanding of the Constitution different from mine I 328 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:27,480 Speaker 2: cannot overlook. Because the Constitution to be worth anything must 329 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:31,800 Speaker 2: be held sacred and rigidly observed in all its provisions. 330 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:36,400 Speaker 2: The man who wields power and misinterprets it is the 331 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:41,480 Speaker 2: more dangerous, the more honest he is. I admit the 332 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:44,399 Speaker 2: truth of all you say, but there must be some 333 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:46,439 Speaker 2: mistake about it, for I do not remember that I 334 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:52,199 Speaker 2: gave any vote last winter upon any constitutional question. No, colonel, 335 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:55,560 Speaker 2: there's no mistake. Though I live here in the backwoods 336 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:58,680 Speaker 2: and seldom go from home, I take the papers from 337 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:02,120 Speaker 2: Washington and ready very carefully all the proceedings of Congress. 338 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:05,600 Speaker 2: My papers say that last winter you voted for a 339 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:09,320 Speaker 2: bill to appropriate twenty thousand dollars to some sufferers by 340 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:10,639 Speaker 2: a fire in Georgetown. 341 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:12,200 Speaker 3: Is that true? 342 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:15,480 Speaker 2: Well, my friend, I may as well own up. You 343 00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:17,919 Speaker 2: got me there, But certainly nobody will complain that a 344 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:21,480 Speaker 2: great and rich country like ours should give the insignificant 345 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:25,240 Speaker 2: sum of twenty thousand dollars to receive its suffering. To 346 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:29,440 Speaker 2: relieve its suffering women and children, particularly with the full 347 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:32,080 Speaker 2: and overflowing treasury. And I'm sure if you'd been there, 348 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:35,359 Speaker 2: you would have done just as I did. It is 349 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:38,359 Speaker 2: not the amount, Colonel, that I complain of. It is 350 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:41,199 Speaker 2: the principle. In the first place, the government ought to 351 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:43,800 Speaker 2: have in the treasury no more than enough for its 352 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:44,879 Speaker 2: legitimate purposes. 353 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:48,040 Speaker 3: But that has nothing to do with the question. 354 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:51,080 Speaker 2: The power of collecting and dispersing money at pleasure is 355 00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:53,440 Speaker 2: the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man, 356 00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:57,000 Speaker 2: particularly under our system of collecting revenue by a tariff, 357 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:00,360 Speaker 2: which reaches every man in the country, matter or how 358 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:02,399 Speaker 2: poor he may be, And the poorer he is, the 359 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:05,280 Speaker 2: more he pays in proportion to his means. What is worse, 360 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:08,760 Speaker 2: it presses upon him without his knowledge where the weight centers. 361 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:10,760 Speaker 2: For there is not a man in the United States 362 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:13,160 Speaker 2: who can ever guess how much he pays to the government. 363 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:16,240 Speaker 2: So you see that while you are contributing to relieve one, 364 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:19,160 Speaker 2: you are drawing it from thousands who are even worse 365 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:22,280 Speaker 2: off than he. If you had the right to give anything, 366 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:25,040 Speaker 2: the amount was simply a matter of discretion with you, 367 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:27,800 Speaker 2: and you had as much right to give twenty thousand 368 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:31,000 Speaker 2: as twenty million. If you have the right to give 369 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:32,760 Speaker 2: to one, you have the right to give to all. 370 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:36,199 Speaker 2: And as the Constitution neither defines charity nor stipulates the amount, 371 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:38,879 Speaker 2: you are at liberty to give it to any and 372 00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:42,280 Speaker 2: everything which you may believe or profess to believe, is 373 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:45,520 Speaker 2: a charity. And to any amount you may think proper, 374 00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:49,199 Speaker 2: you will very easily perceive what a wide door that 375 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:51,800 Speaker 2: would open for fraud and corruption and favoritism on the 376 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:55,480 Speaker 2: one hand, and for robbing the people on the other. No, Colonel, 377 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:59,199 Speaker 2: Congress has no right to give charity. Individual members may 378 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:00,800 Speaker 2: give as much of their own money as they please, 379 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:03,639 Speaker 2: but they have no right to touch a dollar of 380 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:06,480 Speaker 2: the public money for that purpose. If twice as many 381 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:09,320 Speaker 2: houses had been burned in this country, in this county, 382 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:11,639 Speaker 2: as in Georgetown, neither you nor any other member of 383 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:14,920 Speaker 2: Congress would have thought of appropriating a dollar for our relief. 384 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:18,280 Speaker 2: There are about two hundred and forty members of Congress. 385 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:21,280 Speaker 2: If they'd shown their sympathy for the sufferers by contributing 386 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:24,679 Speaker 2: each one weeks each one's week's pay, it would have 387 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:27,639 Speaker 2: made over thirteen thousand dollars. There are plenty of wealthy 388 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:29,840 Speaker 2: men in and around Washington who would have given twenty 389 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:32,600 Speaker 2: thousand without depriving themselves of even a luxury of life. 390 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:36,120 Speaker 2: The congressmen chose to keep their own money, which, if 391 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:38,640 Speaker 2: reports be true, some of them spend not very credibly. 392 00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:44,720 Speaker 2: And the people about Washington, no doubt applauded you for 393 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:48,640 Speaker 2: relieving them from the necessity of giving by giving what 394 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:51,520 Speaker 2: was not yours to give. The people have delegated to 395 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:54,119 Speaker 2: Congress by the Constitution, the power to do certain things. 396 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:57,040 Speaker 2: To do these, it is authorized to collect and pay moneies, 397 00:23:57,280 --> 00:24:01,080 Speaker 2: and for nothing else. Everything beyond them is usurpation and 398 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:02,639 Speaker 2: a violation of the Constitution. 399 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:04,879 Speaker 3: So you see, colonel, you. 400 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:08,119 Speaker 2: Violated the Constitution what I consider a vital point. It 401 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:11,520 Speaker 2: is a precedent fraught with danger to the country, for 402 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:14,320 Speaker 2: when Congress once begins to stretch its power beyond the 403 00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:16,720 Speaker 2: limits of the Constitution, there is no limit to it 404 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:21,159 Speaker 2: and no security for the people. I have no doubt 405 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 2: you acted honestly, but that does not make it any better, 406 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:27,719 Speaker 2: except as far as you are personally concerned. And you 407 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:35,240 Speaker 2: see that I cannot vote for you. I'm going to 408 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:37,400 Speaker 2: continue reading this, and it's going. 409 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:41,000 Speaker 3: To be in the podcast if you want to hear 410 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:42,120 Speaker 3: the rest of the score. 411 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:45,440 Speaker 4: So otherwise, I think you get the point of why 412 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:55,800 Speaker 4: he cast his next vote against the widow's money. 413 00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:58,760 Speaker 3: I tell you, I felt street. 414 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:03,160 Speaker 2: I saw if I should have opposition, and this man 415 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:05,480 Speaker 2: should go to talk, and he would set others to talking. 416 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:09,920 Speaker 2: And in that district, I was a gone fawn skin. 417 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:13,399 Speaker 2: I could not answer him. And the fact is I 418 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:16,359 Speaker 2: was so fully convinced that he was right. I didn't 419 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:19,920 Speaker 2: want to, but I must satisfy him. And I said 420 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:23,080 Speaker 2: to him, well, my friend, you hit the nail upon 421 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:25,760 Speaker 2: the head when you said I did not have sense 422 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:29,880 Speaker 2: enough to understand the Constitution. I intended to be guided 423 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:34,239 Speaker 2: by it, and thought I had studied it fully. I 424 00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:37,600 Speaker 2: have heard many speeches in Congress about the powers of Congress. 425 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:40,920 Speaker 2: But what you have said here at your plow has 426 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:45,520 Speaker 2: gotten me more hard sound sense in it than the 427 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 2: fine speeches. 428 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:48,400 Speaker 3: I have ever heard. 429 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:51,760 Speaker 2: If I had ever taken the view of it that 430 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:54,240 Speaker 2: you have, I would have put my head into the 431 00:25:54,280 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 2: fire before I would have given that vote. And if 432 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:03,800 Speaker 2: you will forgive me and vote for me again, if 433 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:06,360 Speaker 2: I ever vote for another unconstitutional law. 434 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:08,119 Speaker 3: I wish I may be shot. 435 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:14,760 Speaker 2: He laughingly replied, Yes, colonel, you have sworn to that 436 00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:18,240 Speaker 2: once before. But I will trust you again upon one condition. 437 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,560 Speaker 2: You say that you are convinced your vote was wrong. 438 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,479 Speaker 2: Your acknowledgment of it will do more good than beating 439 00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:28,400 Speaker 2: you for it. If as you go around the district, 440 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:33,080 Speaker 2: you will tell people about this vote and you are satisfied. 441 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:33,119 Speaker 3: It was wrong. 442 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:36,600 Speaker 2: I will not only vote for you, but I will 443 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:39,360 Speaker 2: do what I can to keep down opposition, and perhaps 444 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:43,520 Speaker 2: I may exert some little influence in that way. If 445 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:46,480 Speaker 2: I don't, said I, I wish I may be shot, 446 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:48,159 Speaker 2: and to convince you that I am in earnest in 447 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:50,199 Speaker 2: what I say, I will come back this way in 448 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:52,840 Speaker 2: a week or ten days, and if you will get 449 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:54,560 Speaker 2: up a gathering of the people, I will make a 450 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:57,640 Speaker 2: speech to them. Get up a barbecue, and I will 451 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:00,960 Speaker 2: pay for it. No, colonel, we are not rich people 452 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:03,480 Speaker 2: in this section, but we have plenty of provisions to 453 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:07,119 Speaker 2: contribute for a barbecue, and some to spare for those 454 00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:10,440 Speaker 2: who have none. The push of crops will be over 455 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:13,000 Speaker 2: in a few days, and we can then afford a 456 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:14,360 Speaker 2: day for a barbecue. 457 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:18,040 Speaker 3: This is Thursday. I will see to getting it up 458 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:19,040 Speaker 3: on Saturday. Week. 459 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:22,600 Speaker 2: Come to my house on Friday and we will go together. 460 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:26,240 Speaker 2: And I promise you a very respectable crowd to see. 461 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,520 Speaker 3: And hear you well. I will be here. 462 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:36,400 Speaker 2: But one thing more before I say goodbye, I must 463 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:45,400 Speaker 2: know your name. My name is Bunce, not Horatio Buns. Yes, well, 464 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:47,840 Speaker 2: mister Bunce. I never saw you before, though you say 465 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:49,919 Speaker 2: you have seen me. But I know you very well. 466 00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,560 Speaker 2: I am glad I've met you, and very proud that 467 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:57,560 Speaker 2: I may hope to have you for my friend. It 468 00:27:57,640 --> 00:27:59,480 Speaker 2: was one of the luckiest hits of my life that 469 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,520 Speaker 2: I met him. He mingled but little with the public, 470 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:07,440 Speaker 2: but was widely known for his remarkable intelligence and incorruptible integrity, 471 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,600 Speaker 2: and for a heart brimful and running over with kindness 472 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,399 Speaker 2: and benevolence which showed themselves not only in words but 473 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:17,800 Speaker 2: in acts. He was the oracle of the whole country 474 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:21,119 Speaker 2: around him, and his fame had extended far beyond the 475 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:24,280 Speaker 2: circle of his immediate acquaintance. Though I had never met 476 00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:27,720 Speaker 2: him before, I had heard much of him. And but 477 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:29,840 Speaker 2: for this meeting, it is likely I should have had 478 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:33,840 Speaker 2: opposition and had been beaten. One thing is very certain. 479 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:37,080 Speaker 2: No man could now stand up in that district under. 480 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:38,400 Speaker 3: Such a vote. 481 00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:41,480 Speaker 2: At the appointed time, I was at his house, having 482 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:44,600 Speaker 2: told our conversation to every crowd i'd met and every 483 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:47,360 Speaker 2: man I stayed all night with, And I found that 484 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:49,480 Speaker 2: it gave the people an interest in a confidence in 485 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:53,680 Speaker 2: me stronger than i'd ever seen manifested before. Though I 486 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:56,400 Speaker 2: was considerably fatigued when I reached his house, and under 487 00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:00,240 Speaker 2: ordinary circumstances, should have gone early to bed, that I 488 00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:03,080 Speaker 2: kept him up until midnight talking about the principles and 489 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:06,440 Speaker 2: affairs of government, and I got more real, true knowledge 490 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:10,239 Speaker 2: of them than i'd got all my life before. I 491 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:12,520 Speaker 2: have known and seen much of him since, for I 492 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:16,320 Speaker 2: respect him, No, that is not the word. I reverence 493 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:19,680 Speaker 2: and love him more than any living man. And I 494 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:21,640 Speaker 2: go to see him two to three times every year. 495 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:23,760 Speaker 2: And I will tell you if everyone who professes to 496 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:27,560 Speaker 2: be a Christian lived and acted and enjoyed it as 497 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:30,680 Speaker 2: he does, the religion of Christ would take the world 498 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:36,000 Speaker 2: by storm. But to return to my story, the next 499 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,320 Speaker 2: morning we went to the barbecue, and to my surprise, 500 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,560 Speaker 2: found about a thousand men there. I met a good 501 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,640 Speaker 2: many whom I had not known before, and they and 502 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,480 Speaker 2: my friend introduced me around until I got pretty well acquainted. 503 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:50,800 Speaker 2: At least they all knew me. In due time, notice 504 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 2: was given that I would speak to them. They gathered 505 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 2: up around a stand and had been that had been 506 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:55,760 Speaker 2: erected for the occasion. 507 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:57,120 Speaker 3: I opened my speech. 508 00:29:56,840 --> 00:30:00,880 Speaker 2: By saying, quote, Fellow citizens, I present vent myself to 509 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:05,840 Speaker 2: you today, feeling like a new man. My eyes have 510 00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:09,600 Speaker 2: lately been open to truths with which ignorance, or prejudice, 511 00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:13,040 Speaker 2: or both had heretofore hidden from my view. I feel 512 00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:15,959 Speaker 2: that I can today offer you the ability to render 513 00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,440 Speaker 2: you more valuable service than I have ever been able 514 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:22,560 Speaker 2: to render before. I am here today more for the 515 00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:25,480 Speaker 2: purpose of acknowledging my error than to seek your votes. 516 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:28,800 Speaker 2: That I should make this acknowledgment is due to myself 517 00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:32,000 Speaker 2: as well as to you. Whether you will vote for 518 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:36,200 Speaker 2: me is a matter for your consideration only. I went 519 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:38,400 Speaker 2: on to tell them about the fire and my vote 520 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:40,600 Speaker 2: for the appropriation, and then told them why I was 521 00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:44,760 Speaker 2: satisfied it was wrong. I closed by saying, and now, 522 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:47,840 Speaker 2: fellow citizens, it remains only for me to tell you 523 00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:49,719 Speaker 2: that the most of the speech you have listened to 524 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:52,560 Speaker 2: with so much interest was simply a repetition of the 525 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:56,600 Speaker 2: arguments by which your neighbor, mister Buntz convinced me of 526 00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:59,760 Speaker 2: my error. It is the best speech I ever made 527 00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:02,200 Speaker 2: in my life life, but he is entitled to the 528 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:05,320 Speaker 2: credit for it. And now I hope he is satisfied 529 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:08,320 Speaker 2: with his convert and that he will get up here 530 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:12,600 Speaker 2: and tell you. So. He came upon the stand and said, 531 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:16,400 Speaker 2: fellow citizens, it affords me great pleasure to comply with 532 00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:19,760 Speaker 2: the request of Colonel Crockett. I have always considered him 533 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:22,560 Speaker 2: a thoroughly honest man, and I am satisfied that he 534 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:28,560 Speaker 2: will faithfully perform all that he has promised you. Today 535 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:32,280 Speaker 2: he went down, and there went up from that crowd 536 00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:35,000 Speaker 2: such a shout for Davy Crockett, as his name never 537 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:39,520 Speaker 2: called forth before. I am not much given to tears, 538 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:42,920 Speaker 2: but I was taken with a choking then, and felt 539 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:44,959 Speaker 2: some big drops rolling down my cheeks. 540 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:46,640 Speaker 3: And I tell you now. 541 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,480 Speaker 2: That the remembrance of these few words spoken by such 542 00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:54,000 Speaker 2: a man, and the honest, hearty shout they produced, is 543 00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:55,840 Speaker 2: worth more to me than all the honors I have 544 00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:59,120 Speaker 2: received and all the reputation I ever made or shall 545 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:04,080 Speaker 2: ever make as a member of Congress. Now, Sir concluded Crockett. 546 00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:07,160 Speaker 2: You know why I made that speech. 547 00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:08,040 Speaker 4: Today. 548 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:10,600 Speaker 2: There is one thing now to which I will call 549 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:14,120 Speaker 2: your attention. You remember that I propose to give a 550 00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:17,800 Speaker 2: week's pay. There are in that house many very wealthy men, 551 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:20,280 Speaker 2: men who think nothing is spending a week's pay, or 552 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:23,200 Speaker 2: a dozen of them for a dinner or a wine party, 553 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:26,560 Speaker 2: when they have something to accomplish by it. Some of 554 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:29,640 Speaker 2: those same men made beautiful speeches upon the great debt 555 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:33,240 Speaker 2: of gratitude which the country owed the deceased, a debt 556 00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:37,440 Speaker 2: which could not be paid by money, and the insignificance 557 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:42,000 Speaker 2: and worthlessness of money, particularly so insignificant a sum is 558 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:45,440 Speaker 2: ten thousand dollars when weighted against the honor. 559 00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:45,760 Speaker 3: Of our nation. 560 00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:51,640 Speaker 2: Yet not one of them responded to my proposition. Money 561 00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,000 Speaker 2: with them is nothing but trash when it is to 562 00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:57,280 Speaker 2: come out of the people. But it is the one 563 00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:01,280 Speaker 2: great thing for which most of them are striving, and 564 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:07,360 Speaker 2: many of them sacrifice honor, integrity, and justice to obtain it. 565 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:12,720 Speaker 3: And that, my family, is why I name my son 566 00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:17,400 Speaker 3: crock Ladies and gentlemen, all this nas left for gilding. 567 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:19,480 Speaker 3: Thank you, and good night.