Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-10-15

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JEFFERsOr's MAP.
(From an Old Print 10 Mr. Max Lans-
burgh's Collection)
venge. I have sought it. I have
killed many. have fully glutted my
vengeance. For my country I 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 ~ mourn for
Logan? No one!"
Mr.. Jefferson says: "That any
body questioned this speech was
never suspected by me till I saw
the letter of Mr.. Martin IN a Balti.
more paper. I remembered that
Gen. Gibson was still living, and
knew that no had been the translator
of the speech. 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- a 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 encyclopedias as
taken from the Notes of Virginia
and finds that it was his translat ion
I 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"
It 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 sag
that, if he can find that an error
was made by Logan, he will dis
seminate that fact, but concludes:
IF find that Logan was right in
his charge I will vindicate, as fa1
as my suffrage may go, the truth OF
chief whose talents and misfor.
tunes have attached to him the re-
spect and commiserat ion of the
world"
Mr.. Jefferson then publishes let.
ters and affidavits tending to com
pletely substantiate the genuineness
of the Logan address. Hon. Judge
Innes, of Frankfort, Ky, says: 81
recollect to have seen Logan's
speech in 1775. "He also saw the
war club which announced the be.
ginning of war. It was from Logan
and began: capt. Cresap: What
did you kill roy people on Yellow
creek for?"
The affidavit of Gen. John Gibson,
who received the Logan address and
delivered it to Lord Dunmore, is
sworn to April 4, 1900, at Pittsburg
Pa, before Jen Barker, a justice OF
the peace. Gen. Gibson avows that
Capt. Cresap endeavored, with him
to prevail upon Il marauding party OF
white men to desist from their p,lr-
pose to attack Indians on Yellow
creek. This exonerates Capt. Cresal
from Logan's charge. y He fixes the
authorship of the Logan address in
the following words:
cat the request Of Lord DEnmore this
deponent went in, and Logan. the Indian
| came to where this depoEent was sitting
| with Cornstalk and other chiefs of Shaw.
That they went into a. copse Of wood and
sat down, when Logan, after shedding
abundance of tears, delivered him the
speech nearly as related by Mr.. Jefferso
| In his Notes on Virginia; that this depon.
ent on his return to camp delivered the
speech to Lord Dunmore."
An extract of letter from Col
Eben Zane is printed. Col. Zane tells
in detail of the disorders preceding
the murders, and concludes: II must
do Capt. Cresap the justice to say
that 7 do not believe that he was
present at the killing of Indians al
Yellow creek"
There are other letters and afidavits
which all tend to incriminate Capt
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
CANS address is established, and that
was Mr.. Jefferson's principal desire
Accompanying the aged pamphlet
containing these interesting facts il
a 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: "Whe
is there to mourn for Logan7 NJ
one!" SMITH D. FRY.