The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-11-22
Logan, tho MingO.

Thore are few Intelligent persons In
the civilized world who have not read
the speech of Logan, the Cayuga-
usually called the Mingo-ohief. and ad-
mired its simple, pathetic eloquence.
1t will live as long as Grafton on the
Grown, yet not one in thousand who
know 1T by heart know when and how 1t
was made. 1t may not be uniuterest-
ing to tell the story as 1t was told in the
deposition OF John Gibson, the first
secretary aud second Governor of In .
diana Territory. In 1774, says the de-
position, Mr.. Gibson accompanied Lord
Dunmore on the expedition against the
Shawnees and other Indians on the
Scloto; that on their arrival within fiji
teen miles Of the towns they were met
by flag and request that some one
should be sent in who undessoood their
language, and he went at the request of
Lord Dunmore and all the officers; that
on his arrival at the towns, Logan, the
Indian. came to where this deponent
was sitting with Cornstalk aid the other
chiefs Of the Shawnees, and asked HIM
to walk out with him; that they went
into copse of wood, where they sat
down. when Logan, after shedding
abundance Of tears, delivered to hlm tho
speech nearly a3 related by Mr.. Jeffer-
son in his ''Notes on Virginia."
The speech was delivered to Mr.. Glib.
son alone, apparently, and orally, too,
for we can hardly suppose that Logan
wrote it, in the fashion of modern ora
tors, and gave it to his friend to publish
or preserve. Reporters were not known
among the Shawnees in that day, and
II they had been, Logan couldn't write.
We infer, therefore, that this sudden
outburst Of uncultured eloquence was
merely an Indians 'talk" with friend.
Mr.. Gibson does not say that he wrote
it down or repeated 1t to MIR. Jefferson,
but we must suppose he did one or the
other, as nobody else heard it; aud the
supposition Is strengthened by his cer-
tiioation that Mr.. Jefferson had pre-
served it "nearly" as it was delivered
Probably the general idea has been
pretty much the same as ours, that the
chief made his speech at an assembly OF
whites and Inlians, aud some of the
auditors remembered it we'll enough to
tell it to others, and it has gos to Mr..
Jefferson. The man who proposed and
led the expedition which murdered
Logan's famlly-against tho protest OF
Mr.. Zane, the founder of Zanesvilie
| was Michael Cresap, of whom nothing
! appears to be known but this Infamous
butchery. A few days afterwards %
worthy companion in cruelty, one
Daniel Greathouse, led u party in o
massacre Of the Indians. some forty or
fifty miles higher up the OHIO. The
consequence was an Indian war and d
| desperate battle at the mouth of the
Great Kanawha, led by Logan. who had
| always before been "the white man u
friend" as he says. and by Cornstalk,
Red Hawk anu Elemlpsico. The whit ss
! lost rs killed and 14O wounded, a
bloodier battle than TIppscanoe, where
the whites had 81 killed on the field and
1e0 wounded. Logan is said to have
lived on the creek bearing his name. on
which Alexander Cambell lived and
founded Bethany college. and had his
cabin or wigwam set near the site of the
| college. The Delawares and Shawnees,
who composed the major part of the
force that fought the battle ut the
mouth OF the Kanawha, held the terri.
tory where our city stands, and all tho
eastern and southeastern part Of the
State, when it was ceded in 1918.