Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1870-02-24
(From the New Eclectic Magazine. J
LOGAN AND CREsAP.

History is forever revising and .rever-
sing her own decrcas. The august muse
seems Gapricious she alternately black
ems and whitewashcs Certain human
beings are hong regarded as models Of
virtue. and suddenly they are discovered
TO be monsters Of vice. Others labor for
yesss under aload Of ohlequy. thon some
day they are proved TO have been yi!ely
slanicred. Maeaulsy shows tha. Machia-
yelli mas been most uDjus:ly represented
as a wretch Carlyle. after two ccn,u-
ries. has shown that Cromwell vas not so
hack as he has been painted. 1t is doubt
ful il Richard LII was the monster be
has been painted Aud this tendency of
the human mini TO do Justice aud shun
wrong has been displayed Of late years in
exploring the sources Of our American
history.
I. hes long been question whether
Captain Cre.ap. of Maryland, was he
wretch aud murderer described in the GEL
ebratcd speech Of the Indian. To gan. Let
us c'lrcn L: Tie facts, and strive 70 dis
cover the tra.h. To 1881, Mr. JcFsrsnn
amused himself during a spell Of sickness
by compiling his Notes On Virginia. -
In 1884 he published private edition in
Paris. and some years afterwards a pub
lio ch,ion. The "Notes" contained the
famsus speech OF logan; AM al Europe
vas moved with sympathy for the heroic
savagc. nrd hatred toward the alleged
murderer of his family. For more than
half century this charge hlackoneI Gre
say's mcm'ry. L'rau vas the "poor
Indian" victim of the white man Gre
sap was the bloody desperate. who hsi
merci.sssly slaughtered .'alV his tribe
Caateanbriand nil made the Fcaaaron Of
nnture" poetic and pictmcequc. No one
raised His voice fnr the malignrd Crcsap ::
aud it is only within few years past that
the truth has been discovered, namely.
th,t Logan was bloody aud cruel ike the
rest st the children of na;urc, and that
Crossp was brave man who had moth
ing whatever to DO with The affair in
which he was said TO have bora the chief
part. We shall briehy state the facts,
opposing true history to ramor and ira
dition.
In l714 the war between Great Britain
and her American colonies was about to
commence. Beside the two great con-
tending parties'there Was q third, the In
dians On the frontier ehronic state of
war had existed savage and pioneer had
never inglgd 7 is state of things, it
is said, had been sadulouslv nursed by
Governor Durmnre, of Virginia; and in
the Spring Of i117+ the Virginians on the
Ohio iEoatier found the Indians every
where in motion ready 10 attack The
pioneers took down their rifles We
know nothing to-day OF the meaning of
the words ''nn Indian attack :" bat the
pioneers knew. The savagts spared no
body; they SHOT tho men, sc.lped the
women, aud dsshe' out The brains Of chill
dren aeains, the frat tree. With such n
foe it was war 20 the knife no quarter
was given or asked When the Indians
b"ran IN advance IN the white settle
ments, the word r.n through the cuun-
try, Get ready" as Of I'D the beacon
fires Gamcd on tho Scottish hill, at the
approach cf the English foeipan. Hes
tiliGcs quickly hogan on the frontier, in
the Spring Of iT1i. and blood fowci.-
The whites end Indians hunted each 9th
er. instead of hunting game in .hc woods
Captain Cre,a?, of Maryland, was prom
inent amoUg the pioneers and from this
prominence no doubt resulted his suppos-
cd connection with the killing Of Locan's
people. q'his affair. rendered afterwards
SO dramatic by Mr.. jefferson, was briliy
as follows: p,
There was an Indian camp or settle
meut en- tho Ohio, above Wheeling. anu
across the river a cabin where a man
na,acti Baker sold rum 10 the Iudiaus.-
In April, 1IT4. two land hun:ers appear
ed here. Biyousoing in the woods, they
kubbled aud turned loose their ous horsa,
and rs an additional means of preventing
the animsl from ssraying beyond reach
sfhxed bell to his neck. Sooa the boil
was heard violently ringing; the hunters
ran to the top ola III 10 thc direction
If the sound: an Indian was discovered
attempting to steal the horse, and one cf
the party, without ceremony, levelled his
rifle and shot the thief. At the sound.
another Iodian appeared, rae in hand,
and he too vas shot. All this was in
sight OF the InSian camp Of stretched deer
aud bear skins. The place was suidealv
in bakz. .ise whites fs.i across The, ,r;y-
er. she gauntlet was thrown down. The
"Yeilox Creek MassacEe" followed. The
Indians. beyoad doubs, resolved to ex-
terminate the whites aud that night =
fris nily sguaw crossed to Bakers. and
informed has xife OF the intended attack.
Thcgeupon Baker summoned has neigh
bsrs. Tweney-cnc fiockcd 10 the cabin,
and esHssaisl themselves. The Indians