1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:05,440 Speaker 1: We were talking about the flu shot and how the 2 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:08,399 Speaker 1: studies show it doesn't actually work. In fact, it kills 3 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 1: more people than it saves. Then in two thousand and eight, 4 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 1: Cheryl Atkinson did a piece on how top vaccine advocates 5 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:24,320 Speaker 1: we're receiving substantial funding from pharmaceutical companies. 6 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 2: Years now, parents have wondered if vaccines are linked to 7 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:32,520 Speaker 2: conditions like autism and add Government officials and some scientists 8 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:35,599 Speaker 2: say there is no connection, and they're often backed by 9 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:40,160 Speaker 2: independent experts. But just how independent are they? You may 10 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 2: be surprised at what Cheryl Akison found when she set 11 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:46,640 Speaker 2: out to follow the money. 12 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:50,040 Speaker 3: There's some of the most trusted voices in the defense 13 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 3: of vaccine safety, the American Academy of Pediatrics, Every Child 14 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 3: by Two and pediatrician doctor Paul Ausitt. The CBS News 15 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 3: has found these three have something more in common. 16 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:03,520 Speaker 1: Folly Young number two. 17 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 3: Strong financial ties to the industry whose products they promote 18 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:11,200 Speaker 3: and defend. The vaccine industry gives millions to the Academy 19 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 3: of Pediatrics for conferences, grants, medical education classes, even helped 20 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:19,399 Speaker 3: pay to build their headquarters. The totals are kept secret, 21 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 3: but public documents reveal bits and pieces. Three hundred forty 22 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 3: two thousand dollars was given to the Academy by WYF, 23 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:31,199 Speaker 3: maker of the new macawcle vaccine, for a community grant program. 24 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:34,160 Speaker 3: Four hundred and thirty three thousand dollars was contributed to 25 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 3: the Academy by Merk. The same year the Academy endorsed 26 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 3: Merk's HPV vaccine. Another top donor, Sanafi Aventis, maker of 27 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:47,039 Speaker 3: seventeen vaccines and a new five to one combo shot, 28 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 3: just added to the childhood vaccine schedule last month. Every 29 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 3: Child by two, a group that promotes early immunization for 30 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 3: all children, admitst the group takes money from the vaccine 31 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:01,920 Speaker 3: industry too, but wouldn't tell us how much. A spokesman 32 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 3: told us there are simply no conflicts to be unearthed. 33 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 3: But guess who has been listed as the group's treasures. 34 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:13,320 Speaker 3: Unofficial from WYATH and a paid advisor to big pharmaceutical clients. 35 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 3: Then there's doctor Paul Offitt, perhaps the most widely quoted 36 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:20,680 Speaker 3: defender of vaccine safety. He's gone so far as to 37 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 3: say babies can theoretically tolerate quote ten thousand vaccines at once. 38 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:29,799 Speaker 3: This is how Affitt described himself in a previous interview. 39 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 4: I'm the chief of Infectious Diseases at Children's Hospital Philadelphia 40 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:36,079 Speaker 4: and a professor pediatrics at Penn's Medical School. 41 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 3: Doctor Offfitt was not willing to be interviewed on this subject, 42 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 3: but like others in our investigation, he has strong industry ties. 43 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 3: In fact, he's a vaccine industry insider. Doctor Offitt holds 44 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:51,640 Speaker 3: a one point five million dollar research chair at Children's 45 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:55,240 Speaker 3: Hospital funded by Merk. He holds the patent on an 46 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 3: anti diarrhea vaccine he developed with Merk Rhodo Tech, which 47 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 3: has prevented thatands of hospitalizations in the US, and future 48 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:06,560 Speaker 3: royalties for the vaccine were just sold for one hundred 49 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 3: and eighty two million dollars cash. Doctor Offit's share of 50 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:12,080 Speaker 3: vaccine profits unknown. 51 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 4: There's nothing illegal about the possible conflicts of interest, but, 52 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:18,920 Speaker 4: as one member of Congress put it, money from the 53 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 4: pharmaceutical industry can shape the practices of those who hold 54 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 4: themselves out to be independent. The American Academy of Pediatrics, 55 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:30,080 Speaker 4: every Child by Two and doctor Offitt wouldn't agree to interviews, 56 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 4: but all told us they're upfront about the money they 57 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:38,000 Speaker 4: receive and it doesn't sway their opinions. Today's immunization schedule 58 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 4: now calls for kids to get fifty five doses of 59 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 4: vaccines by age six. Ideally, it makes for a healthier society, 60 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:49,400 Speaker 4: but critics worry that industry ties could impact the advice 61 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 4: given to the public about all those vaccines. 62 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 1: Now, let's think about how this works. Hmm. So we've 63 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 1: got a product to sell. Let's say we're the sellers 64 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:09,880 Speaker 1: of chocolate candy bars, and people just aren't buying enough 65 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 1: chocolate candy bars for our liking. So we go to 66 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:20,040 Speaker 1: the public health officials. We say, we'll give you all 67 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:23,039 Speaker 1: this money, which is how fault you got rich. We'll 68 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:26,360 Speaker 1: give you all this money to say you need to 69 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:33,920 Speaker 1: eat more of Ramones chocolate candy bars. In fact, that's 70 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 1: really the only way to save you. And we recommend 71 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 1: that schools don't allow children to come to school unless 72 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:47,720 Speaker 1: they've eaten their Ramones chocolate candy bar. Universities, we recommend 73 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 1: that companies don't allow people to come in. We recommend 74 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:53,920 Speaker 1: that hospitals not allow you to be admitted as a 75 00:04:54,000 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 1: hospital unless you've eaten your Ramones chocolate candy bar. Or long. 76 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:04,560 Speaker 1: What happens, they sell a lot of chocolate candy bars, 77 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:09,360 Speaker 1: don't they you think that might have affected Now that 78 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:14,080 Speaker 1: doesn't make the chocolate candy bar good for you. It 79 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:18,120 Speaker 1: doesn't make the chocolate candy bar give you any health benefits. 80 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:24,839 Speaker 1: And neither does the fact that top vaccine advocates are 81 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:29,600 Speaker 1: advocating for something mean that you won't get what they're 82 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:34,560 Speaker 1: giving you, the vaccine to prevent you from getting. When 83 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:36,839 Speaker 1: you stop and think about it that way. 84 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:47,000 Speaker 5: Man Michael barryn't change in the system modern. 85 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 1: On this day in nineteen fifty five, which makes it 86 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 1: seventy years ago. Love his Grief was There were four 87 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:02,600 Speaker 1: different versions of this same ballad of Davy Crockett on 88 00:06:02,640 --> 00:06:07,400 Speaker 1: the market and on the charts, believe it or not. 89 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:13,839 Speaker 1: One was by Walter Schumann, one was by the great 90 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 1: Tennessee Ernie Ford. One was by Best Parker, But you 91 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:26,359 Speaker 1: knew that already because he started the movie. The fourth. 92 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:31,719 Speaker 1: You get extra extra credit lanyap on top of Lanya 93 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:36,280 Speaker 1: if you knew that it's Bill Hayes. Hiss went to 94 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:42,840 Speaker 1: number one, and uh, I love the story of Davy Crockett, 95 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:46,520 Speaker 1: but not for the reason that you might think. My 96 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:53,680 Speaker 1: youngest son is named Crockett. Crockett Marcos Barry Marcos, one 97 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 1: of his Ethiopian names. We kept our children's Ethiopian names 98 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:01,800 Speaker 1: as part of their overall nity, even though we gave 99 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:06,120 Speaker 1: them names that we chose as their sort of Christian name, 100 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:08,760 Speaker 1: the name that they go by. But Crockett was so 101 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 1: named after a hero of mine. We went by the 102 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:15,040 Speaker 1: name David Crockett. But legend has him at Davy Crockett. 103 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:17,920 Speaker 1: I don't know that it matters today. David Crockett who 104 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:20,600 Speaker 1: died at the Alamo, and as a child, I was 105 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 1: as inspired as I am today by the men who 106 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:28,840 Speaker 1: fought at the mission in San Antone against the Mexicans 107 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:34,240 Speaker 1: and died valiantly. David Crockett's a great story because of 108 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 1: the you may all go to Hell, I'm going to 109 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 1: Texas story. He was. He was one of the first, 110 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:48,240 Speaker 1: after Daniel Boone, one of the first true American heroes. 111 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 1: For some reason other than being a president or a general. 112 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 1: He was Colonel David Crockett. But he was a hero 113 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 1: for his exploits. He once showed up in New York 114 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 1: at a Broadway musical about the exploits of Davy Crockett. 115 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:14,680 Speaker 1: But the reason I adore. His memory and his legacy 116 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:17,679 Speaker 1: is more than all of those things, although of course 117 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:20,640 Speaker 1: they add to them. It is a story that's kind 118 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 1: of Ron Paul in the telling. Not many people like this, 119 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:28,920 Speaker 1: very few people. Indeed, it's because of the speech he gave, 120 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:33,319 Speaker 1: and that speech came to be known as not yours 121 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:38,560 Speaker 1: to give, not yours to give. Say that out loud, 122 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:40,199 Speaker 1: because you're gonna want to look this up, because most 123 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:42,560 Speaker 1: of you probably don't know this story about David Crockett, 124 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:45,240 Speaker 1: because you think of David Crockett as the legend and 125 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:47,560 Speaker 1: killed him a bar when he was only three, and 126 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:52,160 Speaker 1: dying at the Alamo and the Coonskin Cap and all 127 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:55,080 Speaker 1: those are wonderful aspects to the legend of David Crockett. 128 00:08:55,080 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 1: But while David Crockett was in Congress, there was a 129 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:07,800 Speaker 1: request for the widow of a celebrated naval officer, and 130 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:10,040 Speaker 1: Congress was ready right there on the spot. Boom, let's 131 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:12,200 Speaker 1: give her a bunch of money from the public treasury. 132 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:16,200 Speaker 1: And Davy Crockett did something very brave. He stood on 133 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:20,000 Speaker 1: principle because surely, with the old woman here, you're going 134 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:22,120 Speaker 1: to give some money out of the federal government. Federal 135 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:24,400 Speaker 1: government's got it, and we're in charge of it. We're 136 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:26,559 Speaker 1: the appropriators. That's what Congress does. So let's give her 137 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:28,959 Speaker 1: some money. And there was quite the fervor. Yeah, let's 138 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,280 Speaker 1: give her some money. It's the people's money. Who cares, 139 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 1: and we'ld give it to her. We'll look like stars 140 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:39,200 Speaker 1: and Davy Crockett, Colonel Crockett stood up and said, I 141 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 1: have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, 142 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:44,319 Speaker 1: and as much sympathy for the sufferings of the living, 143 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:47,679 Speaker 1: if suffering there be, as any man in this house. 144 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:50,680 Speaker 1: But we must not permit our respect for the dead, 145 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:54,160 Speaker 1: or our sympathy for a part of the living, to 146 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:58,400 Speaker 1: lead us to an act of injustice to the balance 147 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:02,480 Speaker 1: of the living means everybody else. I will not go 148 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:05,640 Speaker 1: into an argument to prove that Congress has no power 149 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:09,960 Speaker 1: to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every 150 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:14,080 Speaker 1: member upon this floor knows it. We have the right 151 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:17,439 Speaker 1: as individuals to give away as much of our own 152 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:21,960 Speaker 1: money as we please in charity, But as members of Congress, 153 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:26,839 Speaker 1: we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of 154 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 1: the public money. We cannot, without the grossest corruption, appropriate 155 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:35,880 Speaker 1: this money as the payment of a debt we have 156 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:40,840 Speaker 1: not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as a charity. 157 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:44,320 Speaker 1: Mister Speaker, I have said, we have the right to 158 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 1: give as much money of our own as we please. 159 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:50,960 Speaker 1: I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot 160 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 1: vote for this bill. But I will give one week's 161 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:56,680 Speaker 1: pay to the object, that's the widow, and if every 162 00:10:56,679 --> 00:10:59,360 Speaker 1: member of Congress will do the same, it will amount 163 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:02,720 Speaker 1: to more then the bill asks. He then went on 164 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 1: to say, in quoting a constituent, the people have delegated 165 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:09,960 Speaker 1: to Congress by the Constitution, the power to do certain things. 166 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:13,680 Speaker 1: To do these, it is authorized to collect and pay moneies, 167 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:18,800 Speaker 1: and for nothing else. Everything beyond this is usurpation and 168 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:22,880 Speaker 1: a violation of the Constitution. Now, there is more to 169 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:26,080 Speaker 1: this story, and it will require the next segment for 170 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 1: me to get to it. There is more to this 171 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 1: story than what David Crockett did. What he did, the 172 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:39,400 Speaker 1: action he took was an act of courage, real courage. 173 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:45,000 Speaker 1: The reason he did it is an act of incredible humility. 174 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:48,199 Speaker 1: And it just goes to show that as we walk 175 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:52,520 Speaker 1: through this world we make mistakes. We all do. And 176 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:54,800 Speaker 1: it's not whether we make mistakes we endeavor not to, 177 00:11:56,160 --> 00:11:58,080 Speaker 1: But it is whether or not we learn from them, 178 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:01,360 Speaker 1: whether we learn from the things we do, the mistakes 179 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:07,800 Speaker 1: we make. And Davy Crockett went on to explain his vote, 180 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:10,080 Speaker 1: and I will read you the rest of his speech 181 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:14,320 Speaker 1: where he does that it's incredibly powerful. But before we 182 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:18,800 Speaker 1: do that, I will say that you will find many 183 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:22,920 Speaker 1: times that the greatest acts of valor, and this is 184 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:26,320 Speaker 1: the part that I think people miss, are typically not 185 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:30,000 Speaker 1: celebrated by those around them. People who stand on principle 186 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:35,480 Speaker 1: are typically not honored and celebrated for standing on principle. 187 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:38,599 Speaker 1: When Ted Cruz went to the United States Senate, I 188 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:40,679 Speaker 1: had worked very hard to put him there, as did 189 00:12:40,679 --> 00:12:43,040 Speaker 1: a lot of other people, and when he got there, 190 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:46,240 Speaker 1: he would lose votes ninety nine to one. Lindsey Graham 191 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:49,360 Speaker 1: said that there were members in the Senate who wanted 192 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:52,040 Speaker 1: to murder him. Send that into a hot microphone. There 193 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:56,360 Speaker 1: are senators who want to murder him. And John McCain said, 194 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:59,199 Speaker 1: it tells you how popular he is that he loses 195 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:02,640 Speaker 1: votes ninety nine one. But I went back and read 196 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 1: those votes, and they were issues that the Senate had 197 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:10,040 Speaker 1: rubber stamped. They were swamp issues, and the concept was 198 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:15,679 Speaker 1: as long as everybody hangs together, we don't hang by ourselves. 199 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:18,719 Speaker 1: And so what Ted Cruz was doing was making a 200 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:21,959 Speaker 1: name for himself with the grassroots constituency with Tea Party voters, 201 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:26,400 Speaker 1: which became Maga voters. But he wasn't very popular, for 202 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:31,280 Speaker 1: it wasn't popular at all. Anyway, I'll read you that 203 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:37,800 Speaker 1: letter coming up, Captain some ting Wong. Well, something must 204 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:41,000 Speaker 1: be right. You're listening to Michael Berry. Okay, So I 205 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 1: told you that Davy Crockett, while the widow had been 206 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:49,640 Speaker 1: brought forward before the Congress, her husband a celebrated naval 207 00:13:49,679 --> 00:13:52,600 Speaker 1: officer who had passed, and here she was the widow, 208 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:57,000 Speaker 1: and she wanted some money. And they said, oh, yes, 209 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:00,439 Speaker 1: your husband was a great man. Let's write to check 210 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:04,160 Speaker 1: from the Treasury to you. David Crockett said, you can't 211 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:08,200 Speaker 1: do that. You don't have the power. We do not 212 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:14,439 Speaker 1: have the power to appropriate charity. And by the way, 213 00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:19,280 Speaker 1: we can give charity of our own money. And I'll start, 214 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:22,840 Speaker 1: I'm the poorest fellow in this Congress, and I'll give 215 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:25,720 Speaker 1: a week of my pay, and if every one of 216 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:29,000 Speaker 1: you will do the same, we'll give her more money 217 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:33,040 Speaker 1: than you're trying to give her from the Treasury. Well, 218 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:35,320 Speaker 1: as you might imagine, nobody joined him in that offer. 219 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:38,840 Speaker 1: But as I told you, that's not the fact that 220 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:42,400 Speaker 1: he did such a principal thing is impressive. The fact 221 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:46,040 Speaker 1: of how he came to do that, that's the story 222 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 1: I think makes this really, really special. And I'll read 223 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:59,320 Speaker 1: to you from his speech. He uh, he said, it's not. 224 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:02,920 Speaker 1: During his speech was later he was asked by a friend, 225 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:06,440 Speaker 1: why did you do that? My god? Everybody hated you 226 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:10,720 Speaker 1: for that, And he said, well, several years ago, I 227 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:12,960 Speaker 1: was one evening standing on the steps of the Capitol 228 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,840 Speaker 1: with some other members of Congress when our attention was 229 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 1: attracted by a great light over in Georgetown. It was 230 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:22,920 Speaker 1: evidently a large fire. We jumped into a hack and 231 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:25,680 Speaker 1: drove over as fast as we could. In spite of 232 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:27,960 Speaker 1: all that could be done. In spite of all that 233 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:31,240 Speaker 1: could be done, many houses were burned, and many families 234 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:33,720 Speaker 1: made homeless. And besides, some of them had lost all 235 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:36,960 Speaker 1: but the clothes they had on. The weather was very cold, 236 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:39,120 Speaker 1: and when I saw so many women and children suffering, 237 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 1: I felt that something ought to be done for them. 238 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:44,720 Speaker 1: The next morning, a bill was introduced appropriating twenty thousand 239 00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 1: dollars for their relief. We put aside all other business 240 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:51,400 Speaker 1: and rushed it through as soon as it could be done. 241 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:53,760 Speaker 1: The next summer, when it began to be time to 242 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:58,040 Speaker 1: think about the election, I concluded I would not sorry. 243 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:01,560 Speaker 1: I concluded I would take a scout around among the 244 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:04,880 Speaker 1: boys of my district. I had no opposition there, but 245 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:06,880 Speaker 1: as the election was some time off, I didn't know 246 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:09,480 Speaker 1: what might turn up. When riding one day and a 247 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:11,920 Speaker 1: part of my district in which I was more of 248 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:14,480 Speaker 1: a stranger than any other, I saw a man in 249 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:17,920 Speaker 1: a field plowing and coming toward the road. I gauged 250 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 1: my gate so that we should meet as he came 251 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 1: to the fence. As he came up, I spoke to 252 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:26,320 Speaker 1: the man. He replied politely, but as I thought, rather coldly, 253 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:30,040 Speaker 1: I began, well, friend, I'm one of those unfortunate beings 254 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:34,480 Speaker 1: called candidates, and yes I know who you are, your 255 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 1: Colonel Crockett. I have seen you once before and voted 256 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:40,120 Speaker 1: for you the last time you were elected. I suppose 257 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:42,560 Speaker 1: you're out electioneering now, but you'd better not waste your 258 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:45,400 Speaker 1: time or mine. I shall not vote for you again. 259 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 1: This was a sock dollager. I begged him to tell 260 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:54,440 Speaker 1: me what was the matter. Well, Colonel, it is hardly 261 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:58,200 Speaker 1: worthwhile to waste time or words upon it. I do 262 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:00,000 Speaker 1: not see how it can be mended. But you get 263 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:03,080 Speaker 1: a vote last winter, which shows that either you have 264 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:07,120 Speaker 1: not capacity to understand the Constitution or that you are wanting, 265 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:09,919 Speaker 1: in the honesty and firmness to be guided by it. 266 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:13,240 Speaker 1: In either case, you are not the man to represent me. 267 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:16,320 Speaker 1: But I beg your pardon for expressing it that way. 268 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:19,840 Speaker 1: I did not intend to avail myself of the privilege 269 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 1: of the constituent to speak plainly to a candidate for 270 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:25,880 Speaker 1: the purpose of insulting or wounding you. I intend by 271 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:28,159 Speaker 1: it only to say that you are understanding of the 272 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:33,560 Speaker 1: Constitution is very different from mine, and I will say 273 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:36,520 Speaker 1: to you what. But for my rudeness, I should not 274 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:39,600 Speaker 1: have said that. I believe you to be honest. But 275 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:43,160 Speaker 1: an understanding of the Constitution different from mine I cannot overlook. 276 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:47,080 Speaker 1: Because the Constitution to be worth anything must be held 277 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:52,120 Speaker 1: sacred and rigidly observed in all its provisions. The man 278 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:56,520 Speaker 1: who wields power and misinterprets it is the more dangerous 279 00:17:57,119 --> 00:18:01,119 Speaker 1: the more honest he is. I admit the truth of 280 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:04,479 Speaker 1: all you say. But there must be some mistake about it, 281 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:06,560 Speaker 1: for I do not remember that I gave any vote 282 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:12,360 Speaker 1: last winter upon any constitutional question. No, colonel, there's no mistake. 283 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:15,520 Speaker 1: Though I live here in the backwoods and seldom go 284 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:19,120 Speaker 1: from home, I take the papers from Washington and read 285 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:22,960 Speaker 1: very carefully all the proceedings of Congress. My papers say 286 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:25,760 Speaker 1: that last winter you voted for a bill to appropriate 287 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:29,919 Speaker 1: twenty thousand dollars to some sufferers by a fire in Georgetown. 288 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:33,760 Speaker 1: Is that true? Well, my friend, I may as well 289 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:36,520 Speaker 1: own up. You got me there, But certainly nobody will 290 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:39,520 Speaker 1: complain that a great and rich country like ours should 291 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:43,119 Speaker 1: give the insignificant sum of twenty thousand dollars to receive 292 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:48,200 Speaker 1: its suffering, to relieve its suffering women and children, particularly 293 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:50,760 Speaker 1: with the full and overflowing treasury. And I'm sure if 294 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:52,720 Speaker 1: you'd been there, you would have done just as I did. 295 00:18:54,359 --> 00:18:56,720 Speaker 1: It is not the amount, Colonel, that I complain of. 296 00:18:57,359 --> 00:18:59,960 Speaker 1: It is the principal. In the first place, the government 297 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:02,800 Speaker 1: ought to have in the treasury no more than enough 298 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:06,719 Speaker 1: for its legitimate purposes. But that has nothing to do 299 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:09,640 Speaker 1: with the question the power of collecting and dispersing money 300 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:11,760 Speaker 1: at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be 301 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:15,640 Speaker 1: entrusted to man, particularly under our system of collecting revenue 302 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:18,360 Speaker 1: by a tariff, which reaches every man in the country, 303 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:21,159 Speaker 1: no matter how poor he may be, and the poorer 304 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:23,640 Speaker 1: he is, the more he pays in proportion to his means. 305 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:26,600 Speaker 1: What is worse, it presses upon him without his knowledge 306 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:29,080 Speaker 1: where the weight centers. For there is not a man 307 00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:31,400 Speaker 1: in the United States who can ever guess how much 308 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:33,920 Speaker 1: he pays to the government. So you see that while 309 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:36,399 Speaker 1: you are contributing to relieve one, you are drawing it 310 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:39,919 Speaker 1: from thousands who are even worse off than he. If 311 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:42,240 Speaker 1: you had the right to give anything, the amount was 312 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:45,320 Speaker 1: simply a matter of discretion with you, and you had 313 00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:48,399 Speaker 1: as much right to give twenty thousand as twenty million. 314 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:50,760 Speaker 1: If you have the right to give to one, you 315 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:52,480 Speaker 1: have the right to give to all. And as the 316 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:56,159 Speaker 1: Constitution neither defines charity nor stipulates the amount, you are 317 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:59,240 Speaker 1: at liberty to give it to any and everything which 318 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:02,200 Speaker 1: you may believe or profess to believe, is a charity. 319 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:05,760 Speaker 1: And to any amount you may think proper, you will 320 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:09,000 Speaker 1: very easily perceive what a wide door that would open 321 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:11,560 Speaker 1: for fraud and corruption and favoritism on the one hand, 322 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:14,720 Speaker 1: and for robbing the people on the other. No, Colonel, 323 00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:18,479 Speaker 1: Congress has no right to give charity. Individual members may 324 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:20,080 Speaker 1: give as much of their own money as they please, 325 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:22,919 Speaker 1: but they have no right to touch a dollar of 326 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:25,800 Speaker 1: the public money for that purpose. If twice as many 327 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:28,560 Speaker 1: houses had been burned in this country, in this county, 328 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:30,879 Speaker 1: as in Georgetown, neither you nor any other member of 329 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:34,160 Speaker 1: Congress would have thought of appropriating a dollar for our relief. 330 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:37,520 Speaker 1: There are about two hundred and forty members of Congress. 331 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:40,520 Speaker 1: If they'd shown their sympathy for the sufferers by contributing 332 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:43,919 Speaker 1: each one weeks each one's week's pay, it would have 333 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:46,879 Speaker 1: made over thirteen thousand dollars. There are plenty of wealthy 334 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:49,080 Speaker 1: men in and around Washington who would have given twenty 335 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:51,800 Speaker 1: thousand without depriving themselves of even a luxury of life. 336 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:55,400 Speaker 1: The congressmen chose to keep their own money, which, if 337 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:57,920 Speaker 1: reports be true, some of them spend not very credibly. 338 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:04,000 Speaker 1: And the people about Washington no doubt applauded you for 339 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:07,840 Speaker 1: relieving them from the necessity of giving by giving what 340 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:10,760 Speaker 1: was not yours to give. The people have delegated to 341 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:13,359 Speaker 1: Congress by the Constitution, the power to do certain things. 342 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:16,280 Speaker 1: To do these, it is authorized to collect and pay monies, 343 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:20,359 Speaker 1: and for nothing else. Everything beyond this is usurpation and 344 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:24,159 Speaker 1: a violation of the Constitution. So you see, colonel, you've 345 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:27,399 Speaker 1: violated the Constitution what I consider a vital point. It 346 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:30,800 Speaker 1: is a precedent fraught with danger to the country, For 347 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:33,560 Speaker 1: when Congress once begins to stretch its power beyond the 348 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:35,959 Speaker 1: limits of the Constitution, there is no limit to it 349 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:40,399 Speaker 1: and no security for the people. I have no doubt 350 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:43,119 Speaker 1: you acted honestly, but that does not make it any better, 351 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:46,959 Speaker 1: except as far as you are personally concerned. And you 352 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:54,480 Speaker 1: see that I cannot vote for you. I'm going to 353 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:58,840 Speaker 1: continue reading this and it's going to be in the 354 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:01,160 Speaker 1: podcast if you want to hear the rest of the score. 355 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:04,680 Speaker 1: So otherwise, I think you get the point of why 356 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:15,199 Speaker 1: he cast his next vote against the widow's money. I 357 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:20,399 Speaker 1: tell you, I felt street. I saw if I should 358 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:23,000 Speaker 1: have opposition, and this man should go to talk, and 359 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:25,880 Speaker 1: he would set others to talk, and in that district, 360 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:31,040 Speaker 1: I was a gone fawn skin. I could not answer him. 361 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:33,720 Speaker 1: And the fact is I was so fully convinced that 362 00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:37,320 Speaker 1: he was right. I didn't want to, but I must 363 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:41,200 Speaker 1: satisfy him, and I said to him, well, my friend, 364 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:43,840 Speaker 1: you hit the nail upon the head when you said 365 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:46,399 Speaker 1: I did not have sense enough to understand the Constitution. 366 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:51,199 Speaker 1: I intended to be guided by it and thought I 367 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:54,720 Speaker 1: had studied it fully. I have heard many speeches in 368 00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 1: Congress about the powers of Congress. But what you have 369 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:01,879 Speaker 1: said here at your plow has gotten me more hard 370 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:06,679 Speaker 1: sound sense in it than the fine speeches I have 371 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:10,560 Speaker 1: ever heard. If I had ever taken the view of 372 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:13,400 Speaker 1: it that you have, I would have put my head 373 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:19,040 Speaker 1: into the fire before I would have given that vote. 374 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:22,320 Speaker 1: And if you will forgive me and vote for me again, 375 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:26,880 Speaker 1: if I ever vote for another unconstitutional law, I wish 376 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:33,000 Speaker 1: I may be shot. He laughingly replied, Yes, colonel, you 377 00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:36,720 Speaker 1: have sworn to that once before. But I will trust 378 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 1: you again upon one condition. You say that you are 379 00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:43,680 Speaker 1: convinced your vote was wrong. Your acknowledgment of it will 380 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:47,119 Speaker 1: do more good than beating you for it. If as 381 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:49,919 Speaker 1: you go around the district, you will tell people about 382 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:53,919 Speaker 1: this vote and you are satisfied it was wrong. I 383 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:56,760 Speaker 1: will not only vote for you, but I will do 384 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,560 Speaker 1: what I can to keep down opposition, and perhaps I 385 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:03,600 Speaker 1: may ex hurt some little influence in that way. If 386 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:06,639 Speaker 1: I don't said I, I wish I may be shot. 387 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:08,320 Speaker 1: And to convince you that I am in earnest in 388 00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:10,399 Speaker 1: what I say, I will come back this way in 389 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:13,040 Speaker 1: a week or ten days, and if you will get 390 00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:14,800 Speaker 1: up a gathering of the people, I will make a 391 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,880 Speaker 1: speech to them, get up a barbecue, and I will 392 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:21,320 Speaker 1: pay for it. No, colonel, we are not rich people 393 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 1: in this section, but we have plenty of provisions to 394 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:27,480 Speaker 1: contribute for a barbecue, and some to spare for those 395 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:30,880 Speaker 1: who have none. The push of crops will be over 396 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:33,480 Speaker 1: in a few days and we can then afford a 397 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:37,720 Speaker 1: day for a barbecue. This is Thursday. I will see 398 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:40,919 Speaker 1: to getting it up on Saturday. Week come to my 399 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:44,159 Speaker 1: house on Friday and we will go together, and I 400 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:48,440 Speaker 1: promise you a very respectable crowd to see and hear you. Well. 401 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:54,919 Speaker 1: I will be here. But one thing more before I 402 00:24:54,960 --> 00:25:00,600 Speaker 1: say goodbye, I must know your name name as Bunts, 403 00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:07,440 Speaker 1: not Horatio Buns. Yes, well, mister Bunce, I never saw 404 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:09,639 Speaker 1: you before, though you say you have seen me, but 405 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:12,919 Speaker 1: I know you very well. I am glad i've met you, 406 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:16,480 Speaker 1: and very proud that I may hope to have you 407 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:19,840 Speaker 1: for my friend. It was one of the luckiest hits 408 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 1: of my life that I met him. He mingled but 409 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,000 Speaker 1: little with the public, but was widely known for his 410 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:31,200 Speaker 1: remarkable intelligence and incorruptible integrity, and for a heart brimful 411 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:34,560 Speaker 1: and running over with kindness and benevolence which showed themselves 412 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:37,679 Speaker 1: not only in words but in acts. He was the 413 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:41,000 Speaker 1: oracle of the whole country around him, and his fame 414 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:43,960 Speaker 1: had extended far beyond the circle of his immediate acquaintance. 415 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 1: Though I had never met him before, I had heard 416 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:50,119 Speaker 1: much of him, and but for this meeting, it is 417 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:53,280 Speaker 1: likely I should have had opposition and had been beaten. 418 00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:56,440 Speaker 1: One thing is very certain. No man could now stand 419 00:25:56,520 --> 00:26:00,720 Speaker 1: up in that district under such a vote. At the 420 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:03,439 Speaker 1: appointed time, I was at his house, having told our 421 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:06,760 Speaker 1: conversation to every crowd i'd met, and every man I 422 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,360 Speaker 1: stayed all night with, And I found that it gave 423 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:11,800 Speaker 1: the people an interest in a confidence in me stronger 424 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:16,159 Speaker 1: than I'd ever seen manifested before. Though I was considerably 425 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:20,439 Speaker 1: fatigued when I reached his house, and under ordinary circumstances 426 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:22,600 Speaker 1: should have gone early to bed. I kept him up 427 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:25,840 Speaker 1: until midnight talking about the principles and affairs of government, 428 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:29,200 Speaker 1: and I got more real, true knowledge of them than 429 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:32,840 Speaker 1: i'd got all my life before. I have known and 430 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:35,800 Speaker 1: seen much of him since, for I respect him, No, 431 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:39,600 Speaker 1: that is not the word. I reverence and love him 432 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:42,200 Speaker 1: more than any living man. And I go to see 433 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:44,080 Speaker 1: him two to three times every year. And I will 434 00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:46,560 Speaker 1: tell you if everyone who professes to be a Christian 435 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:50,800 Speaker 1: lived and acted and enjoyed it as he does, the 436 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:55,240 Speaker 1: religion of Christ would take the world by storm. But 437 00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:58,800 Speaker 1: to return to my story, the next morning we went 438 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:01,840 Speaker 1: to the barbecue, and to my surprise found about a 439 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,919 Speaker 1: thousand men there. I met a good many whom I 440 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,960 Speaker 1: had not known before, and they and my friend introduced 441 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,200 Speaker 1: me around until I got pretty well acquainted. At least 442 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:13,600 Speaker 1: they all knew me. In due time, notice was given 443 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:15,520 Speaker 1: that I would speak to them. They gathered up around 444 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:17,760 Speaker 1: a stand and had been that had been erected for 445 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:22,160 Speaker 1: the occasion. I opened my speech by saying, quote, fellow citizens, 446 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:26,600 Speaker 1: I present myself to you today, feeling like a new man. 447 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:31,040 Speaker 1: My eyes have lately been open to truths with which 448 00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:34,560 Speaker 1: ignorance or prejudice or both had heretofore hidden from my view. 449 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:38,000 Speaker 1: I feel that I can today offer you the ability 450 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:40,760 Speaker 1: to render you more valuable service than I have ever 451 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:45,080 Speaker 1: been able to render before. I am here today more 452 00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:47,760 Speaker 1: for the purpose of acknowledging my error than to seek 453 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:51,120 Speaker 1: your votes. That I should make this acknowledgment is due 454 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:54,520 Speaker 1: to myself as well as to you. Whether you will 455 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:57,439 Speaker 1: vote for me is a matter for your consideration only. 456 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:00,840 Speaker 1: I went on to tell them at the fire and 457 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,360 Speaker 1: my vote for the appropriation, and then told him why 458 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:06,639 Speaker 1: I was satisfied it was wrong. I closed by saying, 459 00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:10,679 Speaker 1: and now, fellow citizens, it remains only for me to 460 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:12,320 Speaker 1: tell you that the most of the speech you have 461 00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:15,000 Speaker 1: listened to with so much interest was simply a repetition 462 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:19,600 Speaker 1: of the arguments by which your neighbor, mister Buntz convinced 463 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:22,679 Speaker 1: me of my error. It is the best speech I 464 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,359 Speaker 1: ever made in my life. But he is entitled to 465 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:27,919 Speaker 1: the credit for it. And now I hope he is 466 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,960 Speaker 1: satisfied with his convert and that he will get up 467 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:35,520 Speaker 1: here and tell you so. He came upon the stand 468 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:39,000 Speaker 1: and said, fellow citizens, it affords me great pleasure to 469 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:42,400 Speaker 1: comply with the request of Colonel Crockett. I have always 470 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:45,480 Speaker 1: considered him a thoroughly honest man, and I am satisfied 471 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:50,480 Speaker 1: that he will faithfully perform all that he has promised you. 472 00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:55,200 Speaker 1: Today he went down, and there went up from that 473 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:57,920 Speaker 1: crowd such a shout for Davy Crockett, as his name 474 00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:02,800 Speaker 1: never called forth before. I am not much given to tears, 475 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:06,120 Speaker 1: but I was taken with a choking then, and felt 476 00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:09,240 Speaker 1: some big drops rolling down my cheeks. And I tell 477 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:12,320 Speaker 1: you now that the remembrance of these few words spoken 478 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:16,600 Speaker 1: by such a man, and the honest, hearty shout they produced, 479 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:19,000 Speaker 1: is worth more to me than all the honors I 480 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:22,080 Speaker 1: have received and all the reputation I ever made, or 481 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:26,280 Speaker 1: shall ever make as a member of Congress. Now, Sir, 482 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:31,280 Speaker 1: concluded Crockett, you know why I made that speech today. 483 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:33,840 Speaker 1: There is one thing now to which I will call 484 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:37,400 Speaker 1: your attention. You remember that I propose to give a 485 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:41,080 Speaker 1: week's pay. There are in that house many very wealthy men, 486 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,560 Speaker 1: men who think nothing of spending a week's pay, or 487 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:46,480 Speaker 1: a dozen of them, for a dinner or a wine party, 488 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:49,840 Speaker 1: when they have something to accomplish by it. Some of 489 00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:52,920 Speaker 1: those same men made beautiful speeches upon the great debt 490 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:56,520 Speaker 1: of gratitude which the country owed the deceased, a debt 491 00:29:56,520 --> 00:30:00,000 Speaker 1: which could not be paid by money, and the inst 492 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:05,120 Speaker 1: significance and worthlessness of money, particularly so insignificant a sum 493 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:08,480 Speaker 1: is ten thousand dollars when weighted against the honor of 494 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:13,200 Speaker 1: our nation. Yet not one of them responded to my proposition. 495 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:17,120 Speaker 1: Money with them is nothing but trash when it is 496 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:20,239 Speaker 1: to come out of the people. But it is the 497 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:23,800 Speaker 1: one great thing for which most of them are striving, 498 00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:29,920 Speaker 1: and many of them sacrifice honor, integrity, and justice to 499 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:35,520 Speaker 1: obtain it. And that, my family, is why I name 500 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:40,480 Speaker 1: my son Croft. The gentlemen, ell of Us has left Fortil, 501 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:42,760 Speaker 1: Thank you, and good night,