The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-09-09
MAY TAKE IT'S PLACE BESIDE
LoGAN'S THE FAMOUS INDIAN
cHIEFTAIN'S

The name OF Perry Davis the pain
Killer man, is quite familiar to Amer
lean readers of patent medicines.
perry Davis's Pain Killer has been
a familiar newspaper headline in all
parts Of the United States for several
generations.
Still another Perry Davis has arisen.
He is an humble Georgia negro farm
er, but his name is likely to take its
place beside that of Logan's, the fam
Gus Mingo INDIAN chieftian whose
rugged eloquence, according to Thorn
as Jefferson, is fairly able to chal-
lenge the whole orations of Demonthe-
mes and Cicero or any of the more
eminent orators of Europe of later
times.
Speaking of the speech of this un-
tutored Indian chieftian Lord Duns-
more in 1774 said that Europe had
never produced anything superior to
this ''morsel of eloquence."
Logan was a friendly Indian and
won the confidence and esteem of
our early white settlers but for some
cause his whole family was murdered
by Colonel Cresap.
A war ensued in which, in the end,
the Indians sued for peace. Logan,
however, disdained to be seen among
the suppliants. But lest the SINGER
ity of the treaty should be disturbed,
which so distinguished a chief alb
sented himself. he sent by a mes
senger, the following speech, to
be delivered to Lord Dunmore:
Il appeal to any white man to say,
if ever he entered Logan's cabin
hungry and he gave him not meat; If
ever he came cold and naked, and he
clothed him not. Dnring the course
of the last long and bloody war Logan
remained idle in his cabin, an adj
vocate for peace. Such was my love
for the whites, that my countrymen
pointed as they passed. and said:
Logan is the friend of the white
men, | had even thought to have
lived with you but for the injuries of
one man. Colonel Cresap, the last
spring, in cold blood, and unprovoked,
murdered all the relations of Logan,
not even sparing my women and child
rem. There runs not drop of Logan's
blood in the veins of any living crea-
ture. This called on me fer revenge.
/ have sought it, have killed many,
have fully glutted my revenge. For
my country | rejoice 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?-Not one
As we said before Perry Davis is
an humble negro Georgia farmer, who
because of his industry and frugality
has won, like Logan, the esteem and
friendship of his white neighbors, as
the frugil and Industrious of their
race are always respected and will
always be respected in Georgia and
elsewhere
Recently one OF Davis daughters
married, and. according to the Macon
Telegraph, the father addressed this
speech to his daughter in the pres
ence of the wedding guests
In my home you have grown up
from childhood to womanhood and
now that you are going out to help
make home for yourself want to
remind you of something you can re-
peat to your husband that may be of
value to you both.
Never, in my home, have you eat
en- biscuits made from bought flour
grown in another mans field. The
meat you have eaten has always been
raised at home and your syrup has
been made from cane grown in my
patch Always, since you were born,
home cows supplied you milk and
butter and home poultry furnished
you eggs and chickens / owe no
man a cent, and while comparatively
a poor man, l have few thousand
dollars in the bank. You and your
husband will be Independent if your
first rule is to make your farm feed
YOU
No sounder advice ever fell from
the lips of one of his race and if
followed that race will win its place
to place in the sum as nothing
else will.
And we proclaim, quoting the lam
guage of Lord Dunmore. that this
''morsel of eloquence" is fitting to
take its place alongside of Logan's
which has won so many plaudits from
critics everywhere
"MARSE" HENRY WATTERsoNs
RELIGIOUS BELIEF