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multiplied proofs. — A war-chief addressed his 

 warriors, waiting for the attack, in the following 

 bold, figurative language : — " / know that your 

 guns are burning in your hands — your toma- 

 hawks are thirsting to drink the blood of your 

 enemies — your trusty arrows are impatient to 

 be upon the wing — and, lest delay should burn 

 your hearts any longer, I give you the cool 

 refreshing word, Away /" And " we may chal- 

 lenge the whole orations of Demosthenes andT 

 Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, (if 

 Europe has furnished more eminent,)" says 

 Jefferson, in his Notes on the State of Virginia, 

 (e to produce a single passage superior to the 

 speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, to Lord Dun- 

 more, when governor of this state." The inci- 

 dents which led to it are as follows. — In the 

 spring of the year 1774, a robbery was com- 

 mitted by some Indians on certain land-adven- 

 turers on the river Ohio. The whites in that 

 quarter, according to their custom, undertook 

 to punish this outrage in a summary way. A 

 certain captain, with another person of some 

 influence, led on these parties, and surprizing 

 at different times travelling and hunting par- 

 ties of the Indians, having their women and 

 children with them, murdered many. Among 

 these were unfortunately the family of Logan, 



