15^4 Logan ^ Crcsap, and Rogers. 



of vengeance ! I was cruel in despight of myself." But 

 he does not tell us, that he " killed many ;" nor does 

 he appear so much in the light of a brutal soldier, as ia 

 tlie person of Logan, Avho says, " I have fully glutted 

 my vengeance." 



" For my country, saj's Logan, I rejoice at the beams 

 of peace." This is a beautiful passage. We find three 

 passages which bear some resemblance to it, in the 

 speech of Lonan. It opens thus : " Lonan will no lon- 

 ger oppose making the proposed peace with the white 

 men." Afterwards, " I once more repeat it — let us be 

 at peace with these men." And, finally, in the style ot 

 a Christian warrior: " I will die content, if my coun- 

 try is once more at peace," 



*' But do not harbour a thought that mine is the joy 

 of fear* Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his 

 heel to save his life." The resemblance to this in the 

 Abbe Robin's edition is not inconsiderable. Lonan says 

 of himself: " You are sensible that he never knew what 

 fear is — that he never turned his back in the day of bat- 

 tie." 



It is worth observing, that in Mr. Jefferson's edition 

 of the speecii, what Logan says in defence of his cha- 

 racter as a bra\'e man, occurs towards the very end of 

 the speech : in the speech of Lonan, on the contrary, 

 the words *' you art- sensible that he never knew what 

 fear is," form the second paragra})h of the speech. 

 Even this circumstance seems to show, that great liber- 

 ties have been taken with the Indian speech, by differ- 



