Litchfield Enquirer

Polite Letters.-Mr. Davie Crockett, of Tennessee, who lately contradicted the facetious account of the first dinner he ever ate at the President's house, and brought certificates that he had "learnt his manners," has again been thrown into a sweat by the wicked newspapers. - Somebody, it seems, has written a letter to Knoxville, 'a town in the district of woods which he represents in Congress which letter has been published, to the exceeding great vexation of Col. Crocket. Speaking of the resolution lately introduced, requiring the members to vote viva voce on the election of a printer, the letter. among many other things, talks thus of the Colonel : "The Jackson side, with a few exceptions. are for open work, and the other, for the contrary, as this may enable them to have a few votes smuggled in under false colors. Gales is officiously polite to all who will tolerate him, and plies every doubtful man with good dinners and 'speeches served up to his liking.— Col, Crockett is one of these, and voted for laying the resolution on the table. He has been a principal cause, too, of having the western district land bill laid on the table again. as you may see by the papers. He is estranged from his colleagues, associates chiefly with the other side, and has openly set himself up in market, offering to vote for any thing in order to get votes by it. He declared his object to be to defeat the whole bill, if he could not succeed with his amendment, so as to get all for the benefit of a few of the people of his own district, notwithstanding he was a member of the General Assembly, when it asked Congress for the lands for the benefit of common schools in the State, and supported the application of his State, and co-operated with her enemies. Where he may land I cannot say." The Colonel is quite furiously and comically wrathful upon the subject. " My patience," he says, " would not permit me to answer at any considerable length, the production of so base a scoundrel, as the author of the letter alluded to, evidently is.— I know not who he is, nor do I believe that he has the courage to avow himself the author of his vile calumny. I should not notice it, if I were not convinced beyond the reach of every. rational doubt, that like a midnight assassin, he was aiming a secret stab at my reputation and standing in society. Why did he not-(whoever he be) say to me, or publish in this city, what is contained in this letter ? Why, like a poor contemptible sneak ? send it off to Knoxville for publication ? For the simple reason, that he supposed either that it would escape my notice, or perhaps did not calculate that it would be published at all.— That those who are with me, and who know me, and who are prepared to detect such secret villany, may have it in their power to appreciate the merits of the article, and its cold-blooded author, referred to, I subjoin it." After the letter. Colonel Davie-clenching his fist to show how he can knock the fellow down. proceeds as follows :-

" Who, to read the foregoing, can fail to shudder for the corruption of a heart so base. so deranged by malignity, as to embody so many wicked falsehoods; and that, too, without provocation? My vote in market!!! I the cause. of defeating a proposition for the benefit of my constituents! !! The kindness of my feelings towards the human family in general. would prompt me to give it some softer name, if I were not so fully convinced that the author of this WICKED LIE, is some contemptible wretch, who seeks to gratify a secret feeling of revenge, which he dares not openly avow. In conclusion, I inform the author of that letter, whether he be in the city, or out of it. (I care not) I consider him a poltron, a scoundrel and a puppy. If he will dare avow himself, puppy as he is, I will condescend to take some further notice of him."

We don't believe the Colonel will ever find 'em out. No man in open day-light will like to cross the track of a huge Tennessean who has looked a wild cat to death! P. S. We are mistaken; Col. David Crockett has " found his customer." One of his colleagues, Mr. Pryor Lee of the Tennessee delegation, has owned himself the author of the offensive letter, and says it is all true, and more too. In a sentence of Mr. Crockett's letter, which we have not quoted above, the colonel says : " I would hazard the opinion, that if he [the writer of the Knoxville publication] is ever known, he will be found to be one of those who were quietly sitting by their fire sides at home, while with the immortal Jackson, I was putting my life "in market," and fighting to defend my country. He will not find me backward in putting it " in market," again, in defence of my reputation." Mr. Lee with most provoking coolness, says: "I am the author of that letter, and ask you, also, to publish this reply to his communication, concerning the manner of which I have but little to say at present. as matters merely personal suit better for private adjustment than for public proclamation." The next call, we presume will be "coffee and pistols for two."-N. Y. Spec.