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were extremely common in those very tracts of country, 

 which, in the last mentioned year, were the theatre of 

 the brutal achievements of a chief called Logan, and of 

 many other Indian chiefs ; of the still more brutal achieve- 

 ments of many a white warrior, whose names are pre- 

 served, in sava^^e glory, in the nexvs-papers of those 

 times. 



But Mr. Jefferson himself has dropped an expression, 

 which would lead one to suppose, that the event re- 

 ferred to, ill the speech of Logan, happened previously 

 to the year 1774. " Of the genuineness of that speech 

 (says the President) nothing need be said. It was 

 known to the camp where it was delivered : it was given 

 out by Lord Dunmore and his officers ; it ran through 

 the public papers of these states ; was rehearsed as an 

 exercise at schools ; published in the papers and perio- 

 dical works of Europe ; and all this, a dozen years before 

 it rvas copied into the Notes o?i Virginia*.''^ Now the 

 Notes on the State of Virginia^ as Mr. Jefferson himself 

 informs us, were *' written in the year 1781, somewhat 

 corrected and enlarged in the winter of 1782," and were 

 printed in the latter year. The original edition, with 

 the imprint of 1782, is now before me. This edition 

 contains the speech of Logan. From Mr. Jefferson's 

 statement, then, it would seem, that the speech had been 

 publislied as early as 1770 ; that is, four years before 

 the lime at which the family of Logan is said to have 

 been murdered by Cresap ! 



* See Appendix relative to the murder of Logan's family. 



