David Crockett was one of those VERY RARE true statesmans of history. He was elected as a representative from Tennessee to the US Congress. Crockett spent his entire career fighting and defending real individual liberty and the abuses of the US Congress violating the Constitution. In a fury of anger, David Crockett rose on the Congress floor, in 1835, when Congress again was violating the Constitution, and cried out:
"Ya'll can go to hell, I'm goin' to Texas!"
In March of 1836 along with 187 other men, David Crockett, managed to hold off the Mexican army at the Alamo, in the Republic of Texas, for eleven days killing over two thousand enemy troops. When they were finally overrun, not a single volunteer was left alive to tell the tale.
David Crockett, dedicated his career to justice, truth, and liberty, and in the end gave his life up for freedom for the Texian people. He did NOT lay down his life for the Federal Government of the United States. He did not die for the STATE OF TEXAS. He died for the Republic of Texas.