sivo war to all necessary resistance to attack, or assault, could 

 have been carried into effect without such men as James 

 Logan at his right hand, whose principles so far adapted them- 

 selves to the actually existing state of things as to do what was 

 necessary to be done, when the alternative came ; to die your- 

 self, suffer wives and children, old and young, the brightest and 

 the best, to be cut down and all your human hopes destroyed, 

 or to take the lives of your murderous assailants. 



Logan's idea was, "that all government is founded enforce," 

 and involves the necessity of defensive war ; and he expresses 

 the surprise with which he learned from Penn, on their first 

 voyage to this country, the different views held by his patron 

 the great philanthropist. 



Franklin relates a singular anecdote of great point, as having 

 come from Logan himself, detailing an occurrence on this 

 voyage which led to an interchange of views. 



Many distinguished individuals conforming to the principles 

 of Friends in other respects, have been of James Logan's mind, 

 in this particular. Of this number may be mentioned, John 

 Dickinson and William Rawle, as well as John Bartram. 



But the letter of James Logan, which now first appears in 

 print, we are told was held by the committee of the yearly 

 meeting to which it had been referred "unfit to be read to 

 the meeting." 



There were frequent passages between them as to Pitt, of 

 whom Bartram was a great admirer. The following is from 

 Collinson, in 1763 : 



"But my dear John, I am sorry to say thou art of that 

 unhappy cast of mind there is no pleasing. 



"Look into Pitt's peace, and see what a pitiful figure we 

 should have made when he adopted Montcalm's boundary for our 

 colonies. As Pitt did it, and accepted it, and made it the foun- 

 dation of his peace it was glorious ! Pray look back and see 

 what slaughter and destruction the Cherokees made (when Pitt's 

 British glory was lost in Germany) on the back settlements of 

 Carolina ; but every thing the turn-coat did was glorious with 

 my dear John ! He heard all their cruelties, but did not then 

 open his lips to complain. Whilst Pitt was sacrificing thousands 



