Chief Logan's Speech

Chief Logan's Speech. . , "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 course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed and said, "Logan is the friend of the 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 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 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.", Tahgahjute (Iroquoian Ambassador), Arbiter, Orator, Statesman and Warrior, "I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero and of any more eminent - to produce a single passage superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo Chief, to Lord Dunmore, the Governor of Virginia." , Thomas Jefferson , Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, Chief John Logan (Mingo Chief), Arbiter, Orator, Statesman, and Warrior