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LOGAN THE MINGO.How his Celebrated Speech was Made and Preserved by Indiana’s Second Governor.%Jji 1 a'*aj U-ta Ne* -There are few intelligent persona in the civilized world who have not read the speech of Logan, the Cayuga—usually called the Mingo—chief, and admiredits simple, pathetic eloquence. It willR 10live a* long as Lincoln's speech at Gettysburg, or the oration on the Crown, yet not one in a thousand who know It by heart know when and how it was made, and it may not be uninteresting to teli the story as it was told in the deposition of John Gibson, the first Secretary and second Governor ol' Indiana Territory. In 1774, says the deposition i which we partly condense,) Mr. Gibson accompanied Lord Dunmore on the expedition against the Shawnees and other Indianson the Scioto; that on their arrival with-* in fifteen miles of the towns they weremet by a flag and a request that somebe fone should be sent in who understood their language, and he went at the request of Lord Dunmore and all the officers; that on his arrival at the town9 ■ Logan, the Indian, came to where this J deponent was sitting with Cornstalk and , the other chiefs of the Shawnees, and 0 asked him to walk out with him; that they went into a copse of wood, they sat down, when Logan, after shedding abundance of tears, delivered to him thespeech nearly as related by Mr. Jeffer- , eon, in his “Notes on Virginia.” The |speech was delivered to Mr. Gibsonalone, apparently, and orally, too, for we can hardly suppose that Logan wrote it, in the fashion of modern orators, anac0111 IUC UWU1VM v/l WVUV1M MU'* Vgave it to his friend to publish or j preserve. Reporters were not known \ among the Shawnees in that day, and \ even if they had been Logan couldn't ° write. * We infer, therefore, that this cel- ( ebrated outburst of uncultured eloquence e was merely an Indian's “talk” wtih a J friend. Mr. Gibson does not say that he £AW All * f AT 90
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New Albany Ledger
New Albany, Indiana, US
Sat, Oct 20, 1883
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