Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-10-22

From an Old Print in Mr. Max Lans-
burgh's Collection.)
Such was my love for the whites thai
my countrymen pointed as they passed
and said: Logan is the friend of the
white men, / had even thought tc
have lived with you, but for the in
juries of one man. Col. Cresap, the
last spring, in cold blood and unpro
voked, murdered all the relations OF
Logan, not even sparing my women
and children. There runs not drop OF
my blood in the veins of any living
creature. This called on me for re-
venge. l have sought it. I have
killed many. I have fully glutted my
vengeance. For my country l re-
joice at the beams of peace. But do
not harbor the thought that mine is
the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear.
He will not turn on his heel to save
his life. Who is there to mourn for
Logan? No one!"
Mr.. Jefferson says: "That any
body questioned this speech was
never suspected by me till / saw
the letter of Mr.. Martin in a Balti-
more paper. 1 remembered that
Gen. Gibson was still living, and
knew that he had been the translator
of the speech. l wrote him Immediate
ly. He in answer declares to me
that he was the very person sent
by Lord Dunmore to the Indian
town; that, after he had delivered
his message there, Logan took him
out to neighboring wood; sat
down with him, and rehearsing with
tears the catastrophe of his family,
gave him that speech for Lord Dun
more; that he carried it to Lord
Dunmore, translated it for him, has
turned to it in the encyclopaedia as
! taken from the Notes of Virginia,
and finds that it was his translation
| had used, with only two or three
verbal variations of no Importance.
| This establishes unquestionably that
the speech of Logan is genuine and
that being established, it is Logan
himself who is author of all impor-
tant facts"
1t seems that Mr.. Jefferson was
accused of publishing an unwar-
ranted attack upon Col. Cresap. by
publishing the speech of Logan
| Concerning this Mr.. Jefferson says
that, if he can find that an error
was made by Logan, he will dis
seminate that fact, but concludes:
IF l find that Logan was right in
his charge l will vindicate, as far
as my suffrage may go, the truth of
chief whose talents and misfor-
tunes have attached to him the re-
spect and commiseration of the
world"
Mr.. Jefferson then publishes let
| tiers and affidavits tending to COM
pletely substantiate the genuineness
of the Logan address. Hon. Judge
Innes, of Frankfort, KY, saws: 81
recollect to have seen Logan's
speech in IT'S. HE also saw the
war club which announced the be-
ginning of war. 1t was from Logan,
and began: "Capt. Cresap: What
did you kill my people on Yellow
creek for?'
There are other letters and affidavits
which all tend to incriminate Can't.
Cresap, showing that he was in the
vicinity of the murders, which were
committed by men under his com
mand. But the authenticity of Lo-
gan's address is established. and that
was Mr.. Jefferson's principal desire.
Accompanying the aged pamphlet
containing these interesting facts is
crude map, indicating the locality
of the atrocious crime which caused
the deaths of so many innocent white
people in a war which concluded with
Logan's pathetically eloquent: 'Who
is there to mourn for Logan? No
one!" SMITH d. FRY.
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