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we have fewer examples, because it is displayed chiefly in
their own councils. Some we have, however, of very
superior lustre.
  a I may challenge the whole orations of Diemosthenes
and Cicero, and of any more eminent orators, (if EuropC
has furnished more eminent) to produce a single past
sage superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief; to
Lord Dunmore, when Governor of Virginia; and as a
testimony of their talents in this line, I beg leave to irk-
troduce it, first stating the incidents necessary for under-
standing it,
  " In the spring of the year 1774, a robbery was com-
mitted by some Indians on certain land adventurers on
the River Ohio. The whites in that quarter, according



to their custom, undertook to
summary way. Captain Micd
Daniel Greathouse, leading on
different times, travelling and
dians, having their women an
murdered many. Among thE
family of Logan; a chief, cele
and long distinguished as the ft
unworthy return provoked ills
itugly signalized himself in the
autumn of the same year, a de
the mouth of the great Kanha
ed forces of the S hawanese,



and a detachment of
were defeated and sue
  " Log-an however,
supplicants. But les
disturbed from which
himself, he sent, by a



punish this ou
iael Cresap, and
these parties, Su
hunting parties
d children with



,se were unfortunat
brated in peace an
'iend of the whites.
v vengeance,.  ie
war which ensued.
Icisive battle was fo
Lway, between the
Minaoes, and De];



trage in a
a certain
rprised, at
of the In-
them, and
       a



ely the
d - war,
  This
accord
In the
tught at
collect-
awares,



the Virginia militia, the Indians
d for peace.
disdained to be seen among the
a the sincerity of a treaty should be
so distingvished a chief absented
messenager, the following-speech,



to be delivered to Lord Dunmore ;"



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