Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1852-02-13

settlers and persons who were hearers of
the celebrated words, that all carping and
doubts ceased, and now no one doubts that
red man was capable of uttering
I Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn
How Illustrative of his warm affections
for the white man, were the opening
Words appeal TO any white man 10
say, if he entered Logan's cabin hungry
and he gave him not meat; if he came
cold and naked, and he clothed him not"
Here. from the lips of an untutored heath
en-, were the words Of holy inspiration,
the precepts of Christian faith welled iii
his heart were virtues that all were loalh
to believe could have habitaton in the
heart OF an uneducated being-an unciyiI
/, lzed Indian, roamer Of the forest, he
who painted his face and arrayed himself
in the skins of the wild beasts.
He pointedly refers to his non-interfer-
ence III the long and gloomy wars waged
by his own brethren against the early set
tiers, though it was of race against a
race, defence of their rights as owners
of the soil against foreign invasion. 'Lo-
gan remained idle in his cabin. for such
was his love for the whites Even at the
expense Of the taunts of his Indian breth-
ren, did he maintain his neutrality they
pointed, as he passed. and said, Logan is
the friend of the white man. Yet he sul-
lered them 10 regard him as a foe to his
race, : the friend OF the white man, sooner
than raise the murderous knife against
those whom he honored for their superior
civilization, their good education and their
better manners. lie had even thought to
have lived with them, but for the injuries
Of one man.
How sadly, then, does he depict his
desolaiion; how keenly has his revenge
been aroused on contemplating the loss
of his dearly loved family, by the hands Of
the whites, for whom he had made so many
sacrifices, and whom he So much loved.
Col. Cresap had murdered his family and
his triends-all within whose veins drop
OF Logan's blood had flowed. Was it not
natural that the deep revenge Of his heart
should have turned him the fierce enemy
Of the whites They have not even
spared says lie, my woman and children.'
These enormities called on him for re-
I
unkindncss into his heart with yulture
keenness. \ serpent was wreathed around
his heart, aud s,ung his very thoughts to
strife He rallied his forces, he nerved
himself for a desperate conflict, and with
all the ferceness of his Indian nature he
led his brethren into war against these
very pale faces of whom they were
Jealous in Logan's friendship. But. he
had
Fought his last battle"
and, after his severe discontinue, sank
into deep melancholy. Logan was him
self no more His proud soul had been
humbled his affections were misplaced,
and his prowess in battle had failed. He
had done all that his noble soul had
prompted. He had believed that Col.
Cresap had, with full knowledge of HIM
self and family, unproyoked and without
cause, murdered those whom he loved, IN
cold blood.
And hence, with the desire for retaliation
and the feeling of revenge starting as i'm
ages before him, he pursued his objects
until superior force and proves soyer-
threw him. and brought him TO his con-
sciousness-his natural self. Then was it
that he delivered his sad, caus'ic and re-
buking speech.
Logan fell INTO dissipated habits. We
are told that he became the victim OF fire
wafer and drank deeply of the intoxicat-
ing bowl. Ga trip from Detroit, then
4 traders station, to his former scene Of
glory on the Ohio, he was murdered IN
drunken fracas, and his brethren, with
full vencration for their great chiet, carried
his remains TO his favorite spot, on the
banks OF the Ohio, and there they were
deposited in the earth receiving yearly
The visits of his tribe, until civilization
drove them back into the forest and time
exterminated the last Of his race.
4 FACT.-We have heard a great many
queer stories about mean men, but none
I tt,,t r,,e u moro nCwer(ul idea of mPannesS