chiefs of the Shawanese had sent to request his lordship to halt his army and send in some person who understood their language; that this deponent, at the request of Lord Dunmore, and the whole of the officers with him, went in; that on his arrival at the towns, Logan, the Indian, came to where this deponent was sitting with the Cornstalk, and the other chiefs of the Shawanese, and asked him to walk out with him; that they went into a copse of wood where they sat down, when Logan, after shedding abundance of tears, delivered to him the speech, nearly as related by Mr. Jefferson in his Notes on the State of Virginia; that he the deponent, told him then that it was not COLONEL CRESAP who had murdered his relatives, and although his son, Captain Michael Cresap, was with the party who had killed a Shawanese chief and other Indians, yet he was not present when HIS RELATIVES were killed at Baker's, near the mouth of Yellow creek, on the Ohio;- that this deponent, on his return to camp, delivered the speech to Lord Dunmore; and that the murders perpetrated as above were considered as ultimately the cause of the war of 1774, commonly called CRESAP'S WAR.

II. GENL. GEORGE ROGERS CLARK says, in his letter of the 17th June, 1798 (ut antea), twenty-four years after the event, that when the treaty was holding at Camp Charlotte, within four (?) miles of Chillicothe, the Indian capital of Ohio, Logan did not appear. "I was acquainted with him, and wished to know the reason. The answer was: that he was like a mad dog: his bristles had been up, and were not yet quite fallen; but the good talk now going forward might allay them.' Logan's speech to Dun

in his public readings as an elocutionist, had given force and currency to the Logan speech.

This letter republished in the Olden Time Magazine, vol. II, p. 51, drew forth the argumentative vindication, contained in Mr. Jefferson's IVth Appendix to his Notes on Virginia to which so many references have been made in the course of this narrative.

II. WITHERS in his Chronicles of Border Warfare, p. 136, says, "Two interpreters were sent to Logan by Lord Dunmore, requesting his attendance; but Logan replied, that 'he was a warrior, not a counsellor and would not come!'"

In a note on this passage, Mr. Withers adds: "COLONEL BENJAMIN WILSON, SENR.," then an officer in Dunmore's army, says "that he conversed freely with one of the interpreters (Nicholson) in regard to the mission to Logan, and that neither

more, as related by Mr. Jefferson, now came forward. It was thought clever; though the army knew it to be wrong as to Cresap. But it only produced a laugh in the camp. I saw it displeased Capt. Cresap, and told him, that he must be a very great man; that the Indians had palmed every thing that happened on his shoulders.' He smiled, and said that he had an inclination to tomahawk Greathouse for the murder." "

III. My late friend JAMES DUNLOP, counsellor at law, in Pittsburgh, since dead, wrote to me, under date of April 25th, 1851, as follows:

"I am well informed that Colonel Gibson, who was an uncle of Chief Justice Gibson, has frequently repeated here the story of Logan's delivering the speech to him. He used to say that at the treaty Lord Dunmore was about to hold with the Shawanese, he was uneasy at the absence of so distinguished a chieftain as Logan, and being indisposed to proceed without his presence, sent Col. Gibson for him; that he, Col. Gibson, found him some miles off at a hut with several other Indians; that pretending in the Indian way, that he had nothing in view, he walked about, talked, and drank with them until Logan pulled him quietly by the coat, and calling him out, took him some distance into a solitary thicket, where, sitting down on a log, the Indian burst into tears and broke out in the impassioned language which glows so

from the interpreter, nor from any other one during the campaign, did he hear of the charge preferred in Logan's speech against Capt. Cresap as being engaged in the affair at Yellow creek. Capt. Cresap was an officer in the division under Lord Dunmore; and it would seem strange, indeed, if Logan's speech had been made public at Camp Charlotte, and neither he (who was so naturally interested in it, and could at once have proven the falsehood of the allegation it contained), nor Colonel Wilson (who was present during the whole conference between Lord Dunmore and the Indian chiefs, and at the time when the speeches were delivered, sat immediately behind and close to Dunmore), should have heard nothing of it until years after" (!)

III. MR. NEVILLE B. CRAIG, in the 2d vol. of his Olden Time Magazine, page 54, published at Pittsburgh in 1847, when discussing the authenticity of the speech, says: "We will state, that many years ago, Mr. James McKee, the brother of Alex. McKee, the deputy of Sir William Johnson, stated to us distinctly, that he had seen the speech in the handwriting of one of the Johnsons, whether Sir William or his successor, Guy, we do not recollect, BEFORE IT WAS SEEN BY LOGAN!""

The reader will also find arguments by MR. CRAIG against the authenticity of the speech in this 2d vol. of the Olden Time Magazine, at pages 49 and 475.

eloquently in the speech. Gibson said that he returned at once to his friends and wrote down the language of Logan immediately, and delivered it to Lord Dunmore in Council."

IV. The message or speech was circulated freely at Williamsburgh immediately after Dunmore's return from his campaign in the winter of 1774, and was published then in the Virginia Gazette on the 4th February, 1775, and in New York on the 16th Feb., 1775, as will be seen hereafter.

V. WILLIAM MCKEE testifies in the IVth Appendix to Jefferson's

IV. JACOB in his Life of Cresap, gives the testimony of Mr. BENJAMIN TOMLINSON, on page 106 of his work. This testimony was prepared in Cumberland, Md., April 17, 1797, twenty-three years after the occurrence of the events.

The testimony is given by question and answer:

Question 6th: Was Logan at the treaty held by Dunmore with the Indians at Camp Charlotte, on Scioto ? did he make a speech, and, if not, who made it for him?

"Answer: To this question I answer-Logan was not at the treaty. Perhaps Cornstalk, the chief of the Shawanese nation, mentioned among other grievances, the Indians killed on Yellow creek; but I believe neither Cresap nor any other person, were named as the perpetrators; and I perfectly recollect that I was that day officer of the guard, and stood near Dunmore's person, that consequently I saw and heard all that passed; that, also, two or three days before the treaty, when I was on the out-guard, Simon Girty, who was passing by, stopped with me and conversed; he said he was going after Logan, but he did not like the business, for he was a surly fellow: he, however, proceeded on, and I saw him return on the day of the treaty, and Logan was not with him; at this time a circle was formed and the treaty begun ; I saw John Gibson, on Girty's arrival, get up and go out of the circle and talk with Girty, after which he (Gibson) went into a tent, and soon after returning into the circle, drew out of his pocket a piece of clean