Show sketches of indian history in the wars between the whites ind and the ind indians the former have arn been tho the principal aggressors I 1 I 1 gov harrison on ons one occasion testifies that the indians could not be enticed to go to war against the whites if only one of the many persons who have committed murders on their people could be brought to punishment the dreadful slaughter of tile the cherokee Cha nation in 1769 1760 commenced by the indians stealing a few horses and then the whites murdering a few indians in the review of the whole says ramsay there is huchto blame more to regret I 1 tile the cherokees Che Cha rokes were tha hirst first I 1 aggressors by taking taing horses from tha th virginians but by killing them for that of fance the balance of injury was on their side eide then treachery begat treachery and murder d r produced murder the lives of those men who came cama originally as messengers of peace tho afterwards retained as hostages were barbarously taken away without any fault of theirs other than thair obeying the laws af nature in resisting a military order for putting their persons in irons A deadly hatred and a desolating war was the conci consa quence the cruelties cruel ties inflicted upon the cherokees for that potty larceny for such it was in that ewe case at the worst may be ba learned barned from a pious letter of the date data of 1761 heaven has blest blast us says this letter writer from the camp under date of july loth with the greatest success we have finished our busness business an aa completely as the most sanguine of us could have wished all their towns fifteen in number beside many little villages a nd and scattered houses have been burnt upwards of fourteen 2 i u adred acres of corn according to moderate commutation entirely destroyed and near five thousand Choro cherokees kees men women woman and children driven to tile mountains to starve their only sustenance for some time past being horse horseflesh flesh t in the spring of 1774 a robbery and murder occurred in some of the white settlements on the ohio which were charged to the indians indiana though perhaps not justly for it is well known that a large number of civilized adventurers were traversing the frontiers at this time who sometimes disguised tham themselves selves as indians and thought no 4 more of killing one of that people than of shooting a buffalo A party of these men land jobbers and others undertook to punish the outrage in tins this case according to thir thair stomas cu mr jefferson expresses it in a summary summary way colonel cresap a nan infamous for the many murders he had committed on those much injured koplo oo 00 p ae collected a party and proceeded down the cn elhawa ha a in inquest quest of vengence ven geace unfortunately t canoe of women and children with one man mail taly was seen coming from the opposite shore im unarmed armed and not at all suspecting an attack from the whites cresap and his party concealed themselves on the hank bank of the river and the mornen moment t the canoa reached the shore singled out their ob ts facts ts and at one fire killed every person in in it this happened to be the family of logan it was not long after this that another massacre took place under still more aggravated circumstances not fir far from the present site of wheeling I 1 virginia a considerable party of the indians being by the whites and all murdered wit with the exception of a little girl among these too was both a brother and a sister of logan and the delicate situation of the latter increased a thousand fold both the barbar barbarity jy of the crimo crime and the rage of ef the survivors of the family read also the pathetic account of the celebrated logan 1 I appeal to any white man to say if he ever entered flogaus cabin hungry and he be gave him not meat if lie he ever clarne came cold cokl and naked and lie he clothed him not during the tha course of the last long and bloody war logan remained idle in his cabin an advocate for peace such was my love for tile the whites that my countrymen pointed as they passed and said logan iss is the friend of the tha white mon men 1 I had even thought to have lived with you but for the injuries of one man colonel cresap the last spring in cold blood and im unprovoked provoked murder od ad all tile the relations of logan not sparing even my women and children childr sa there runs not a drop of my lay blood in the tha veins of any living creature this called on me for revenge I 1 have sought it I 1 have killed many I 1 have fully glutted my vengeance I 1 for my country I 1 rejoice at the beams of peace but I 1 do not harbor a thought that mine mae is thu ithe joy of fear logan never felt fear he will not knot turn on his bis heel to save ins his life who is there to mourn for logan not one of this powerful address mr jefferson says 1 I 1 may challenge the whole orations of demosthenes rud and cicero and of any more eminent orator if europe has furnished more eminent to produce a single passage superior to the speech of logan and an american statesman and scholar scarcely less illustrious than the author of this noble eulo gium has expressed his readiness to subscribe I 1 to it see the speech of friends listen to what I 1 say to you yon you see sae a great and powerful nation divided cousee you see i tile the father fighting against the son and the son against the father the father has called on his indian children to assist him in punishing ili hi children the americans who have become refract v I 1 took time to consider what I 1 should do whether or not I 1 should receive receive the hatchet of father to assist him at first I 1 looked upon i as a family quarrel in which I 1 was not interested however at length it appeared to me that the father was in the right and his children deserved to be punished a little that this must be the case I 1 concluded from the many cruet cruel acts his offspring had committed from ti airna to time on his indian chil children drew in ia encroaching on their land stealing their property shooting at and murdering without cause men women and children yes even murdering those who at ull A times had I 1 been friendly to them and placed for protection under the roof of their fathers house the father himself standing sentry santry at th thi i door at the time 1 tile the speaker here bare referred to a number of pennsylvanian 2 syl indians murdered in abail a jail where they were placed for security against the whites the sentry was the jailer he continued thus friends often has the father been obliged to settle and make amends iov the wrongs and michi as done us by his refractory children yet thesa do not grow better no they remain tile the same and will continue to be so so long as we have any land left us look back at the inu murders aders committed commit ed by the Long knives on many of 0 our ur relations who lived pra peaceable actable neighbors to them on the ohio did they not kill them without the least provocation are they do yo you think better now than they were then no indeed not and many days art are not elapsed since you bouhad had a number of these very m man n at your doors who panted to kih kill you Tou but fortunately were prevented from so doing by the great sun who at that time had bad been ordained by the great spirit to protect you |