Show CHIEF LOGAN THE cayugan HIS IMMORTAL SPEECH T APPEAL to any white man to it if ever he entered logans cabin hungry and he gave him not dot ment meat it if ever he came cold and naked and lie clothed film not during tho the course of the last long and bloody war logani remained idle in his camp nn an ado advocate cate for peace such was troy my love for the whites that my countrymen pointed as I 1 passed and said logan la Is the friend of the white ann I 1 had em een thought to have love lived with you but for the injuries of 0 one man colonel CoUn cl cresap the last spring lit in cold blood and unprovoked murdered ih all the relations ot of logan not even evell sparing my illy women and children there runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature tills called on tile me for revenge I 1 have hava sought it I 1 have killed many I 1 have fully glutted my illy vengeance for my country I 1 rejoice at the beams of peace but do not harbor a thought that mine Is the joy of fear logan never felt fear lie he will not turn on ills heel beel to save ills life who Is there to mourn tor for logan not one what american has not at some time in ills school career recited from hit bli reader that speech not realizing the historical inaccuracy of some of tile statements nor the lie fact that the chief aaa doing it a great injustice to col cresap is a daring borderer and a brave officer of the virginia rifle nieu during the lie revolution for the man who ho was guilty of the murder was waa daniel Grent honse a dissolute trader flat but even such errors in fact cannot detract from froin I 1 the he greatness of the speech and of the man mail nor from tile the tragedy of ills life for logan I ogan anh tali gich jutt illera literally ily ills his eyelashes stick out figuratively spying was as in ills friendship to the whites until the lie massacre of his hl people in 1 1770 ado sent hlin him on tile llie war path raging aging like a wild animal fie ie aas its tile llie leading figure lit in lord don mores war one of the bloodiest in frontier history instincts till during ring j chit hill ar omle he saved tile the life of simon kenton the jewit awn Ken jentons tons oll old friend fri enil sl SI loon G airty the llie white renegade gadt hall hail balled lie he had been nn air intemperate drinker lefore tile the murder after ilat lit 1 beganie lir vunie an air titter otter sot silt which oly added to t ills cruelty lit in 1780 hi ahli 4 ic it iliew killed him hilra hiring during a drunken il knittl ra v 1 ills his wife surN survived ived film but here ere no so lils ills moi irn ul ail ent there runs rung not it drop f my ally blood in tile veins of any living creature rea reu ture vas its true to the last |