150 Logauy Cresap, and Rogers. 



Having thus exhibited to the view of the reader the 

 two speeches, copied, Avith the most scrupulous care, 

 as I find them in the two works, which I have men- 

 tioned, it may seem altogether unnecessary to say any 

 thing further on the subject. The resemblances and 

 the differences between these specimens of oratory- 

 will hnmediateJij strike the eye of the reader. He will, 

 perhaps, be shocked, as I myself have been, at this new 

 instance of the fallacy of testimony, of the uncertainty 

 of history, or the treachery of relators. But this sub- 

 ject, in itself, perhaps, not very important, deserves a 

 more attentive investigation, by reason of tlie interest 

 which it has already produced in the public mind ; and 

 because the speech attributed to Logan, as we receive 

 it from Mr. Jefferson, will be read, with delight (by 

 Americans at least), for a long time ; perhaps so long as 

 the English language shall be the pride of the people of 

 the United- States. 



Even in a historical point of view, the subject de- 

 ' mands an investigation. It is the duty of every lover of 

 truth to erase from the annals of his country every error, 

 however small, by which they are disfigured ; and to 

 show, that an unexpected light may often burst in upon 

 us, even after the lapse of many years, to place events in 

 a better point of view ; and to expose the base and vi- 

 cious conduct of those who have dared, with hardy hand, 

 to defile the lial lowed page of history. 



Before I proceed to inquire, whether the family of 

 Logan were mindered by Colonel Cresap, or by Major 

 Rogers ; whether this event took place in 1754, or 1774, 



