Logan, Cresap, and Bogers. 14S 



The speech of Logan has excited the attention of the 

 public in another point of view. It has been said, that 

 this eloquent morceau is the production of Mr. Jeffer- 

 son, and not of Logan, or any other Indian : that he has 

 imposed it upon the public as an original performance, 

 as serving to establish his favourite theory, that Nature 

 is as perfect in America, as in any other region of the 

 earth. The political and other enemies of this distin- 

 guished citizen of America have, on many occasions, 

 availed themselves of the supposed imposition, and have 

 endeavoured to show, that no dependance is to be placed 

 in the assertions and theories of a man, capable of thus 

 mixing fable with history ; of thus defiling the pure 

 springs from whence the historian, the naturalist, or 

 philosopher, should draw the resources of his information. 



It has been asserted again, but this, we hope, has sel- 

 dom been believed, that Mr. Jefferson, by the publica- 

 tion of this speech, has indulged an aversion to the name 

 and memory of Colonel Cresap ; whom, it is said, he has 

 most cruelly dragged, as one of the most atrocious crimi- 

 nals, before the public ; and by thus connecting his name 

 with a performance which will long be read with interest, 

 — even when it shall cease to be considered as genuine, — 

 has stamped his name with a species of detestation from 

 every reader of American history ; from every one who 

 is capable of a tender feeling, when he meditates upon 

 the enormities, which, for more than three hundred 

 years, have been committed by the Europeans, where- 

 ver they have formed, or attempted to form, establish- 

 ments among the oppressed people of the two Americas. 



