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must be a very great Man, that the Indians shoul- 

 dered him with everything that had happened. . . . 

 Logan is the author of the speech as related by Mr. 

 Jefferson." Clark's remembrance of his rallying 

 Cresap shows that the speech contained Cresap's 

 name and that it was read before the army; sev- 

 eral other witnesses, whose names are not neces- 

 sary to mention, simply corroborate Clark's state- 

 ments, and a large amount of indirect evidence to 

 the same effect could be produced, were there the 

 least necessity. ( See Jefferson's Notes, "The Amer- 

 ican Pioneer," etc., etc.) 



The evidence against the authenticity of the 

 speech, outside of mere conjectures and inuendoes, 

 is as follows: 



(1) Logan called Cresap a colonel when he was 

 really a captain. This inability of an Indian to dis- 

 criminate accurately between these two titles of 

 frontier militia officers is actually solemnly brought 

 forward as telling against the speech. 



(2) Logan accused Cresap of committing a mur- 

 der which he had not committed. But, as we have 

 already seen, Logan had made the same accusa- 

 tion in his unquestionably authentic letter, written 

 previously; and many whites, as well as Indians, 

 thought as Logan did. 



(3) A Col. Benj. Wilson, who was with Dun- 

 more's army, says that "he did not hear the charge 

 preferred in Logan's speech against Cresap." This 

 is mere negative evidence, valueless in any event, 

 and doubly so in view of Clark's statement. 



