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and other physical causes, so contrary to the enlarge- 

 ment of animal nature in this new world, these obsta- 

 cles to the developenient and formation of great germs,'* 

 been arrested and suspended, so as to permit the human 

 body to acquire its just dimensions, and by what incon- 

 ceivable })rocess has their action been directed on his 

 mind alone? To judge of the truth of this, to form a 

 just estimate of their genius and mental powers, more 

 facts are wanting, and great allowance to be made for 

 those circumstances of their situation which call for a 

 display of particular talents only. This done, we shall 

 probably find that they are formed in mind as well as 

 in body, on the same module with thef ' Homo sapiens 

 Europceus.' The principles of their society forbidding 

 all compulsion, they are to be led to duty and to enter- 

 prize by personal influence and persuasion. Hence 

 eloquence in council, bravery and successin war, become 

 the foundations of all consequence with them. To these 

 acquirements all their faculties are directed. Of their 

 bravery and address in war we have multiplied proofs, 

 because we have been the subjects on which they were 

 exercised. Of their eminence in oratory, we have fewer 

 examples, because it is displayed chiefly in their own 

 councils. Some, however, we iiave of very superior 

 lustre. I may challenge the whole orations of Demos- 

 thenes and Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, 

 if Europe has furnished any more eminent, to pro- 

 duce a single passage, superior to the speech of Lo- 

 gan, a Mingo chief, to Lord Dunmore, when governor 

 of this state. And, as a testimony of their talents in 

 this line, I beg leave to introduce it, first stating the 

 incidents necessary for understandino; it. 



In the spring of the year 1774, a fobbery was com- 

 mitted by some Indians on certain land adventurers on 

 the river Ohio. The whites in that quarter, according 

 to their custom, undertook to punish this outrage in a 

 summary way. Caj^tain Michael Cresap, and a certain 

 Daniel Greathouse, leading on these parties, surprised, 



* XVIIL 146. t Linn. Syst. Definition of a Man. 



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