It was while the articles of this treaty were adjusting that the famous speech of Logan is said to have been delivered to lord Dunmore. This eloquent chief was the son of Shikillemus, a celebrated warrior of the Cayuga nation, whose residence was at Shamokin. He was represented by Mr. Hockewelder, a Moravian missionary, as a man of talents and a friend to the whites. In the year 1774 the family of Logan was sacrificed by the indiscriminate yengeance of a party of whites under the command of captain Michael Cresap. This fatal attack on the family and peace of Logan, too much resembled his own mode of warfare, and ought not to be excused on the ground of retaliation. The immediate cause of the outrage was a report of a number of white persons, who were looking for a new settlement, having been killed by the Indians. But justice, to punish the crimes of the warrior, did not require the blood of his innocent wife and children. The war, which followed in consequence of this severe attack on the family of the chief, was marked by all the ferocity of savage vengeance. Happily the

battle of Point Pleasant brought these hostilities to a close, and compelled the enemy to sue for peace. The implacable Logan, however, refused to listen to the sound of peace, but remaining in his cabin, he is said to have sent by a messenger the following warlike address to Dunmore.

"I appeal to any white man to say if ever "he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he "gave him not meat; if ever he came cold "and naked, and he clothed him not. During "the last long and bloody war Logan remain"ed idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. "Such was Logan's love for the whites, that "my countrymen pointed as they passed and

said, Logan is the friend of white men. 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 "unprovoked, murdered all the relations of แ 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 have sought it.

"I have killed many. I have fully glutted my

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vengeance. For my country I rejoice at the "beams of peace. But do not harbour a thought "that mine is the joy of fear. Logan never "felt fear. He will not turn on his heel to save "his life. Who is there to mourn for Logan! "Not one."

Whether this be really the speech of Logan, or was put in his mouth by the ingenuity of some poetic fancy, I shall not pretend to decide. It is certainly characterized by the laconic and figurative style of the Indians. I cannot, however, see in it that "tender sentiment" and "sublime morality" which the historians of Virginia say it possesses. Certainly there is nothing either tender or sublime in the declaration of savage vengeance, and the confession of having glutted himself with the blood of his enemies. The end of this bloody warrior corresponded with his life. After "having killed many and glutted his vengeance with blood," he went to Detroit, on his return from which place he was murdered. After the return of peace had compelled Logan to forbear the use

of the tomahawk and the hatchet, the renowned warrior had become an abandoned sot. The immoderate use of brandy had stupified his mental powers, and mingled with the ferocity of the savage, the delirious ravings of the drunkard.

CHAPTER XII.

TOWARDS the close of the year 1774 the affairs of the colony began to wear a most eventful aspect. Preparations were every where making to decide by arms those grand points that could not be settled by argument. In September a deputation from all the colonies met at Philadelphia, to deliberate on the important affairs of the nation. This august assembly, not inferior to a Roman senate for wisdom or virtue, evinced the sincerity of their loyalty as well as the firmness of their patriotism. Their attachment to the crown was not more sincere than their determination to resist its encroachments on the rights and liberties of the people. While they breathed the spirit of peace and loyalty, they did not neglect to confirm the people in their opposition to tyranny and oppression. Much important business came be