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of two such men against his, and bearing in mind 

 that all that he says against the authenticity of the 

 speech itself is confessedly mere supposition on his 

 part, his statement must be promptly set aside as 

 worthless. If true, by the way, it would conflict 

 with (4) Craig's statement. 



This is literally all the "evidence" against the 

 speech. It scarcely needs serious discussion ; it may 

 be divided into two parts one containing allega- 

 tions that are silly, and the other those that are dis- 

 credited. 



There is probably very little additional evidence 

 to be obtained, on one side or the other; it is all 

 in, and Logan's speech can be unhesitatingly pro- 

 nounced authentic. Doubtless there have been ver- 

 bal alterations in it; there is not extant a report 

 of any famous speech which does not probably differ 

 in some way from the words as they were actually 

 spoken. There is also a good deal of confusion as 

 to whether the council took place in the Indian 

 town, or in Dunmore's camp; whether Logan was 

 sought out alone in his hut by Gibson, or came up 

 and drew the latter aside while he was at the coun- 

 cil, etc. In the same way, we have excellent au- 

 thority for stating that, prior to the battle of the 

 Great Kanawha, Lewis reached the mouth of that 

 river on October ist, and that he reached it on 

 October 6th ; that on the day of the attack the troops 

 marched from camp a quarter of a mile, and that 

 they marched three-quarters; that the Indians lost 

 more men than the whites, and that they lost fewer ; 



