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questioned about his absence, answered that he was 

 like a mad dog, whose bristles were still up, but 

 that they were gradually falling; and when he was 

 entreated to be present at the meeting he responded 

 that he was a warrior, not a councilor, and would 

 not come. The Mingos, because they failed to ap- 

 pear at the treaty, had their camp destroyed and 

 were forced to give hostages, as the Delawares and 

 Shawnees had done, 48 and Logan himself finally 

 sullenly acquiesced in, or at least ceased openly to 

 oppose, the peace. 



But he would not come in person to Lord Dun- 

 more; so the earl was obliged to communicate with 

 him through a messenger, a frontier veteran 49 

 named John Gibson, who had long lived among the 

 Indians and knew thoroughly both their speech and 

 their manners. 50 To this messenger Logan was 

 willing to talk. Taking him aside, he suddenly ad- 

 dressed him in a speech that will always retain its 

 place as perhaps the finest outburst of savage elo- 

 quence of which we have any authentic record. The 

 messenger took it down in writing, translating it 

 literally, 51 and returning to camp, gave it to Lord 



48 "Am. Archives," IV, Vol. I, pp. 1013, 1226. 



49 John Gibson, afterward a general in the army of the 

 United States. See Appendix. 



50 Jefferson MSS. Statements of John Gibson, etc. ; there 

 is some uncertainty as to whether Logan came up to Gibson 

 at the treaty and drew him aside, or whether the latter went 

 to seek the former in his wigwam. 



51 Jefferson Papers (State Department MSS.), 5-1-4. State- 

 ment of Col. John Gibson to John Anderson, an Indian trader 

 at Pittsburg, in 1774. Anderson had asked him if he had not 



