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asked him to walk out with him; that they went into a lt;*opse of wood, they sat down, when Logan, after shedding abundance of tears, delivered to him the speech nearly as related by Mr. Jefferson, in his “Notes on Virginia.” The speech was delivered to Mr. Gibson alone, apparently, and orally, too, for we can hardly suppose that Logan wrote it, in the fashion of modern orators, and gave it to his friend to publish or preserve. Reporters were not known among the Shawnees in that day, and even if they bad been Logan couldn't write. * We infer, therefore, that this celebrated outburst of uncultured eloquence was merely an Indian's “talk” wtih a friend. Mr. Gibson does not say that he wrote it down or repeated it to Mr. Jefferson, but we must suppose that he did one or the other, as nobody else heard it; and the supposition is strengthened by his certification that Mr. Jefferson had preserved it “nearly” as it was delivered. Probably the general idea has been pretty much the same as ours, that the chief made his speech at an assemblyof whites and Indians, and some of theauditors remembered it well enough to tell it to others, and it thus got to Mr.Jefferson. The man who proposed and led the expedition which murdered Logan's family—against the protest of Mr. Zane, the founder of Zanesville—-was Michael Cresap, of whom nothing appears to be known but this infamous butchery. A few days afterwards aworthy companion in cruelty, one Daniel Greathouse, led a party in the massacre of the Indians some forty or fifty miles higher up the Ohio. The consequence was an Indian war and a desperate battle at the mouth of the Great Kanawha. led by Logan, who had always before been “the white man’s friend,“ as he says, and by Cornstalk, Red Hawk, ana Elimpsico. The whites lost seventy-five killed and 140 wounded, a bloodier battle than Tippecanoe, where the whites had thirty-seven killed on the field and 151 wounded. Logan is said to have lived on the creek bearing his name, on which Alexander Campbell lived and founded Bethany college and had his cabin or wigwam set near the site of the college* The Delawares and Shawnees, who composed the major part of the force that fought the battle at the mouth of the Kanawha, held the territory, wh®re our city stands, and all the eastern and southeastern part of the state, when it was eeeded, in ISIS.
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New Albany Ledger
New Albany, Indiana, US
Sat, Oct 20, 1883
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