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ed, murdered all the relations of Logan, not sparing 

 even my women and children. There runs not a drop 

 of my blood in the veins of any livinof creature " The 

 person aud the lact, in a!l its material circumstances, 

 are here given l)y Logan himself. Gen. Gibson, indeed, 

 says, that the title was mistaken ; that Cresap was a 

 captain, and not a coloneh This was Logan's mistake. 

 He also observes, that it was on the Ohio, and not on 

 the Kanhaway itself, that his family was killed. This is 

 an error which has ci-ept into the traditionary account; 

 but surely of little nioment in the moral view of the sub- 

 ject. The material question is; was Logan's family 

 nuirdered, and l)y whom? That it was murdered has 

 not, 1 believe, been denied ; that it was by one of the 

 Cresaps. Logan affirms. This is a question which con- 

 cerns the memories of Logan and Cresap ; to the issue 

 of which I am as indiffiirent as if 1 had never heard the 

 name of either. 1 have begun and shall continue to en- 

 quire into the evidence additional to Logan's, on which 

 the fact was founded. Little, indeed, can now be heard 

 of, and that little dis[)ersed and distant. ]f it shall ap- 

 j.iear on enquiry, that Ijogan has been wrong in charging 

 Cresap with the tnurder of his family, 1 will do justice 

 to the memory of Cresaf), as far as I have contributed 

 to the injury, by believing and repeating what others 

 had believed and repealed before me. If, on the other 

 hand, 1 find that Logan was right in his charge, I will 

 vindicate, as far as my suffrage may go, the truth of a 

 Chief, whose talents and inisfortiujes have attached to 

 him the respect and cormniseration of" the woi-ld. 



1 have gone, my dear Sir, into this lengthy detail to 

 satisfy a mind, in the candour and rectitude of whi(di 1 

 have the highest confiiience. So far as you may incline 

 to use the cotnmunication for rectifying the judgments 

 of those who are willing to see things tridy as they are, 

 you are free to use it. But I jiray that no confidence 

 which you may repose in any one, may induce you to 

 let it go (Hit of your hands, so as to get into a newspaper. 

 Against a contest in that field I am entirely decided. I 

 feel extraordinary gratification, indeed, iu addressing 



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