The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-01-14
TRUTH OF HISTORY.
cHIEr LooAN's FAMOUS spEEon
"a "Editsd" BY JsHsrsOu, aud an AooulA.
tisn It Contains Against Certain Pioneers
Of this Vicinity, Excepted to On the
Authority Of Au Old Lady.


WAlHIN6ToN, Par Jan. l3.-The fol-
lowing from the pen Of Mr., E. E, Brown
lee will appear in to-morrow'S 0bIerVtr;
In his introduction to the Speech Of
Logan, Chief Of the MipgoeS," Thomas
Jefferson makes the following statement;
ain the spring Of the year liza. q rob
berry was committed by some Indians
upon certain land adventures on the Ohio
river. The whites in that quarter, &C.
cordinR to the custom, undertook to pun
ish this outrage. Captain Michael Oresap
and one Daniel GreRthouse, leading on
these parties, surprised at different timel
travelling and hunting parties Of the In
diRns, who had their women and children
with them, and murdered many. Among
these were, unfortunately, the family OF
Logan, q chief celebrated in peace and
wRr, and long distinguished as tho friend
Of the whites"
Ever since Jefferson gave To the world
the lannon's speech Of Logan the above
statement has been accepted ga o histori.
cal fact by successive generations oil
Americans, There are some who believe
the celebrated specimen Of Indian eloqu'
enCe to be "a apOcryphRl as Pitts reply to
Walpole, which was neither composed
nor delivered by the Great CommoneI,
but was written by DR., johnson, How
ever this may be, 1t Ia certain that some
OF the desCendents Of the early settlers oil
Western ~PenusylyPnia are In the posses
sion Of facts concerning the treatment OIL
these Indians by the whites entirely at
variance with the incidents related by
Jefferson. In Justice Of the memory o.
Captain CreSap and Daniel Greenhouse, !
desire to present the other side oil this
item Of pioneer history,
In the spring OF l774 the white settlers
in the vicinity of what is snow known IS
Holidays Cove were gteaLly alarmed by
the report that the Indians on the oppo.
site side OF the Ohio river intended to Cross
and attack the settlement. The plot OF
tho Indians was divulged by an Indian
woman who secretly crossed the river I'M
canoe and informed Mrs. Elizabeth Cresap,
by whom she had been kindly treated, Of
the hostile designs OF the Indians. Her
people, she said, had decided to leave tho
shores OF the Ohio and 60 further inland.
They had set a day on which TO cross the
river, murder the whites and take away
as much plumber as they could carry. The
Greenhouses who lived neal HermRn's
Greek, were at once informed Of the plot
by Mrs. Tomlinson whose husband, Benja-
min Tomlinson, was not ut homo vt the
time, The whites promptly prepared for
the attack, hut NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
When the day arrived on which the In
dian woman said the massacre would take
place the Indian warriors and a consider.
able number Of squaws were seen crossing
the river for the Virginia side. The
whites on seeing them approach in q hos.
tile manner armed themselves and rowed
out to the middle OF the river. A sharp
and severe skirmish was then fought ON
the water and many OF the Indians were
killed. During the light an Indian woman
was killed and her baby was either thrown
or fell into the river. It was picked up
by Daniel Greathouse and given to his
mother Who nursed the child until an
Indian woman ives found who adopted 1t.
It was afterwards discovered to be the
child Of the crafty and treacherous Simon
Glrty. In this summary way were these
Indians punished; but those who escaped
we're not surprised at different times and
murdered by parties led on by Cant.
Cresap and Daniel GreathouSe, though,
possibly, some Of them may have been
murdered by other settlers according to
their CUSTOM"
Igiye these facts substantially as they
we're related to me by Mrs. Elizabeth
Bruce, an old lady well known to many Of
our readers, and highly esteemed by all
her acquaintance. Her veraCity ID be-.
yond question, and she has always main
tanned that the commonly accepted &C.
count Of the treatment Of these Indians by
CreBap and Greenhouse Is not correct. A
paragraph in one Of "Gath's" letters pub.
lishel In the 06Itrtsr during the Presi-
dental campaign leads me TO infer that
that we'll informed and ubiquitius CORES.
pendent Is acquainted with the same facts
which she relates.
Mrs. Bruce Is now in her slst year. She
isa native Of this county and has lived all
her life in the vicinity Of the rs" bridge,
on the National pike. She is entirely
blind, having Lost her Sight last summerin
9 manner so sudden and ~unaCCountable as
to puzzle alltho physicians who have ex-
amined her case. She Is the last OF q fam
lily who were the actors in stirring scenes
which have now passed into history. Her
father, Thomas Btownlee, fought under
Washington during the wal Of the Reyo.
luton, and her mother, who wa q sister
OF the Daniel Greenhouse mentioned in
this article, attended q school in Washing
ton taught by ono Barrett at q time when
this town Of natural gas and beautiful
homes was q wilderness Of hazel bushes.
E.Ap.