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Dunmore. The earl then read it, in open council, 

 to the whole backwoods army, including Cresap, 

 Clark, and the other scouts. The speech, when read, 

 proved to be no message of peace, nor an acknowl- 

 edgment of defeat, but, instead, a strangely pathetic 

 recital of his wrongs, and a fierce and exulting jus- 

 tification of the vengeance he had taken. It ran as 

 follows : 



"I appeal to any white man to say if ever he en- 

 tered Logan's cabin hungry and he gave him not 

 meat ; if ever he came cold and naked and he clothed 

 him not? During the course of the last long and 

 bloody war, Logan remained idle in his camp, an ad- 

 vocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites 

 that my countrymen pointed as I passed and said, 

 'Logan is the friend of the white man/ I had even 

 thought to have lived with you, but for the injuries 

 of one man. Colonel Cresap, the last spring, in cold 

 blood and unprovoked, murdered all the relations of 

 Logan, not even sparing my women and children. 

 There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of 

 any living creature. This called on me for revenge. 

 I have sought it. I have killed many. I have fully 

 glutted my vengeance. For my country I rejoice at 

 the beams of peace; but do not harbor a thought 

 that mine is the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. 

 He will not turn on his heel to save his life. Who 

 is there to mourn for Logan? Not one." 



himself added somewhat to the speech; he responded that he 

 had not, that it was a literal translation or transcription of 

 Logan's words. 



