148 Logan, Cresap, and Rogers. 



the minds of those men, who, in their whole language, 

 have not two words to signify equity and humanity'^.'''' 



In a note to the above, the 'author says, " The Spa- 

 niards have been reproached for exercising cruelties upon 

 the inhabitants of the countries they conquered ; but it 

 appears, that reproaches of this kind, are no less well 

 founded against the Englishf." He adds, in the same 

 note, 



" An Indian speech, that was given me by a pro- 

 fessor at Williamsburg, a translation of which is sub- 

 joined, is a proof of this. It discovers, at the same 

 time, the bold and masculine energy with which these 

 savages are taught by nature to express themselves." 

 Then follows the speech, which is entitled, 



*' Speech of the Savage Lo n a n, in a General Assem- 

 bly, as it was sent to the Governor of Virginia ; anno 

 1754." 



IfOnmi's Speech, from the Mbe 

 Robin. 



" LoNAN will no longer op- 

 pose making (he proposed peace 

 with the white men — you are 



Logan's Speech, frojn Mr. Jeffer- 

 son. 



" I appeal to any white rrjan 

 to say, if ever he entered Lo- 

 gan's cabin hungry, and he gave 



* We could show, if this were the proper place for the inquiry, 

 that the Indian languages are not wholly destitute of words some- 

 >vhat equivalent to those which are here mentioned. Editor. 



■f The Abbe, it seems, is very partial to his own countrymerto 

 There are, upon record, instances of great cruelty practised upon 

 the Indians, in some parts of North-America, by the French.— 



F.niTOR. 



