| Show CHIEF LOGAN THE CAYUGA HIS IMMORTAL SPEECH 61 I 1 T APPEAL to any white man to i say it if ever he entered logans logana cabin hungry and lie he gave him not meat if ever he came cold and naked and lie he clothed him not during the course of the last long and bloody war logon logan remained idle in his camp an advocate for peace such was ans my loe ione for the whites that my countrymen pointed as I 1 passed and said logan Is the friend of the white mon man I 1 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 children there runs not a drop of my blood in the 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 for my country I 1 rejoice nt at the beams of pence peace but do not harbor a thought that mine Is the joy of fear logan never felt fear lie ile will not turn tuni on ills his heel to save his life who Is there to mourn tor for logan not onel one what american lias has not nt at so some e time aimin in his school career recited from his reader that speech not realizing the th e historical inaccuracy of some of the statements nor the fact that the chief was doing a great injustice to col michael cresap a daring borderer and a brave officer of the virginia riflemen during the revolution for the roan man who nho was guilty of the murder was daniel greathouse Gren a dissolute trader but even such errors in fact cannot detract front from the greatness of t the he speech and of the man nor from the tragedy of ills his life for logan anh ta h gali jute literally ills his stick out figuratively ng Rs ns unwavering in his friendship to the whites until the lie massacre of hit his people in 1770 sent seat him on oil the war path raging like a wild animal aniual he ans as the leading figure in lord dun war one of the bloodiest in frontier history occasionally ills his be better instincts pre ailed during that mar ar once he sav saved e d the life of simon kenton the famosa scout when jentons Ken tons old friend simon garty the bilte white ren renegade egide had failed lie ile had been an intemperate drinker before tile the greathouse murder after that lie he became an utter titter sot which aly added to ills his cruelty in 1780 his nephew killed him during a drunken arnel his lils wife survived hlin him but there were no children so his mourn ul statement there runs not a drop if t my blood in the veins of any livies rea feature ture was true to the last |
