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place, outside the cabin. .aAkaAz 6eAa
within had chopped to pieces tEe

within had chopped to pieces tHe q
Indians, and now came staggering forth
shaking three CORY scalps in triumph.
Now, boys" said the white header,
we've got a good show, and let's make
clean tracks afore some other red
niggers git arter our hair.n
And hastily they stripped the dead Of
every article of value, broke up their
camp, and departed for the interior set.
Elements, taking the poor metherless In
FAINT with them.
Meantime. the Indians on the other side
OF the river, being witnesses Of the horri-
Bile massacre, hurried into their only re.
naming canoe, and rowed swiftly down
the Ohio. On passing the fort at Wheel.
ing they were espied, aud chase was civ
en- BY a party of whites. Far below thew
were overtaken, and a short fight ensued
and another of their party was killed
the others making their escape through
the deep dark forests.
While tho bloody events we have re,
corded we're taking place on the 0Ai6. =
Grand Council of chiefs and warriors was
convened at the Indian town in the inte.
rior OF what is now the State Of Ohio
They were celebrating upon the propri.
ETY. of digging up the Ratchet and going
to war against the whites, who were fast
e~ncroaching upon their home and hunt
Ing grounds, and Judging from precedents.
would soon require them to leave again
for the Far West. Most Of tbs chiefs
were for war ; but there was one brave
and eloquent man among them, who spoke
for peace, and spoke with such reason,
power and pathos, that he carried his
point over strong opposition. and the pine
OF pea1 was smoked ii The Cbuneil
House Of the assembled nations.
This brave and eloquent chief had ever
raised his voice for peace between the
white man and the red, because, as he
said, the same Great Spirit had made
them all, and designed Them toap6 bgo4hA
ers, and the earth was large enough 3
rich, in forest. streams, and game, to girNl
them all shelter and food, and happy
homes.
his earnest e%loqnence conquered the
fiery war spirit of his fierce comrades. and
he was rejoicing in his peaceful triumph.
when 10 a poor Indian, half dead with
hunger and fatigue, appeared before him.
and told him how his father, brother and
sister, had been cruelty butchered by his
pale-faced friends. Instantly the dark
eye of the Chief of Peace, gathered a
storm OF FIRE and shot forth Lightning
chances of anger, and his mighty voice,
before the re assembled chiefs and warri.
orsof many nations, was soon heard thun-
dering:
War war war War upon the pale
faces war upon. the Long Knives
was echoed and re-echoed, with wild, saw
age shouts, by many hundreds Of ~iercely
painted, half naked savage men,.
And down upon the unprotected ron
tiers poured a fierce and fiery horde Of
human beings, whose rallying war.cry
was,
Revenge ! Revenge r
And the old men and infants, and young
men and maidens, and men in the prime
Of life, and wives and mothers were
reused at the midnight hour, by those
yells of vengeance, and were butchered
in their cabins, scalped on their hearth.
stones, and burned with their Badning
homes.
Il will have ten scalps for every kin
of mine slain" said the Chief OF Blood,
so lately a Chief of Peace.
And ere the war, so terribly and sud
denly begun, was closed by a treaty of
peace, thirty human scalps, thirty pale.
face scalps, hung dangling at his CORY
belt. 4
This wal is known in history as Lord
Dunmore's War.
That man Of peace, reused touch
bloody deeds by the ssggsss
white brothers, was the world.renoWned
LOGAN, THE MINGo CHIEF!
The leader of the party who butchered
his relatives, was DANIEL GREATHousE.
The leader of the party who sailed
from the fort at Wheeling, and followed
and slew eno Of the flying fugitives, was
CAPTAIN CREsAP.
Logan always supposed it was Cresap
who murdered his relatives and ID his
celebrated speech, sent to Lord Dunmore
at the treaty Of peacs-for he propA4l
refused to appear in person-he mentions
him as the cause Of the war. We quote
this speech, delivered at old Ckillicothe
town, and sent to Governor Dunmore at
Camp Charlotte, as one of the finest spec
linens OF %eloquence extant.
:" | appeal to any white man to say if
he ever entered Legan's cabin hungry and
| gave not meat-if he ever came cold or
naked, and ! gave him not clothing
During the course of the last long
and bloody war, Logan remained in his
tent an advocate for peace. xs,~such
was my love for the whites, that those Of.
my own country pointed ut me as they
passed, and said, Logan IS the friend Of
the white man." / had Y thought to
live with you, but for the injuries Of one
man. Col. Cresap, the last spring, in
cool blood, and ~unprovoked, cut off all
the relatives Of Logan, not sparing even
my women and children. There runs not