Logan, Cresap, and Rogers. 15. 



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*' Major Rogers cruelly and inhumanly murdered, in 

 their canoes, my wife, my children, my father, my mo 

 ther, and all my kindred." 



Logan tells us, that the murder was committed in 

 the spring : Lonan does not tell us at what season the 

 event happened. In Lonan we read of canoes : but 

 neither canoes nor boats of any kind are mentioned by 

 Logan. Perhaps, the person, who fabricated the speech 

 which Mr. Jefferson has given us, did not think the 

 word " canoes" sufficiently poetical, and may, therefore, 

 have suppressed it. 



Logan says, that Cresap murdered all his relations^ 

 not sparing even his women and children. Lonan is 

 more particular. He says, that Rogers murdered his 

 wife, his children, his father, his mother, and all his 

 kindred. But in default of more precise information 

 concerning the persons murdered, the fabricator of the 

 speech in the Notes, puts the following words in the 

 mouth of Logan : " There runs not a drop of my blood 

 in the veins of any living creature." There is nothing* 

 that bears the most distant resemblance to this much. 

 admired passage, in the speech of Lonan. 



*' This (Logan says) called on me for revenge. I 

 have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glut- 

 ted my vengeance." 



We now, almost for the first time, begin to discover 

 any resemblance between the speeches of Logan and 

 Lonan. The latter says, " This roUsed me to deeds 



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