| And, in the | calmest | and | most | stillest | night, | With all ap- pliances and | means to boot, | De- ny it to a king? Un- | easy | lies the | head Then | happy | low! lie | down, | that | wears a | crown. STORY AND SPEECH OF LOGAN. 1. In the ❘ spring of the | year | seventeen | hundred and | seventy-four, a robbery | was com- | mitted by some Indians | on | certain | land ad- | venturers on the O- | hio | river. |The | whites in ❘ that | quarter, | ac- | cording to their | custom, | under- | took to | punish this | outrage in a summary | way. | Captain | Michael | Cresap, ❘ on these and a | certain | Daniel | Greathouse, | leading | parties, sur- | prised, at different times, | | | | travelling and | hunting parties of the | Indians, | having their women and | children | with them, and murdered many. A- | mong | these were, un- | fortunately, the family of | Logan, a chief, | celebrated in | peace and | war, and long dis- | tinguished as the friend of the whites. || 2. This un-worthy re | turn | pro- | voked his | vengeance. He accordingly | signalized him- | self in I the | war which en- | sued. In the autumn of the same year a de- | cisive battle was fought at the | mouth of the | Great Ka- | nawha, be- | tween the collected forces of the | Shawanese, | Mingoes, and | Delawares, and a de-tachment of the Vir- | ginia mi- | litia. | The Indians were de- | feated, and sued for | peace. Logan, how- | ever, dis- | dained to be | seen among the suppliants. But | lest the sin- | cerity of a | treaty should | be dis- | trusted, tinguished a | chief ab- | sented himself, messenger, the following | speech, to Lord Dunmore 1971 from which so dis- | he | sent, by a to be de- | livered 3. "I appeal to | any | white man to | say, if | ever he | entered Logan's | cabin | hungry, and he gave him not meat; if | ever he | came | cold and | naked, and he | clothed him not. During the course of the | last | long and bloody | war, || Logan re- | mained | idle in his cabin, an | advocate for | peace. Such was my | love for the whites, that my | countrymen | pointed as and | said, 'Logan is the | friend of | white they passed, men.' 771 4. "I had even thought to have for the man. injuries of | one | man. the last spring, in | cold | blood, lived with you, but Colonel Cresap, || | and unpro- | voked, | murdered | all the re- | lations of | Logan, | not even | | |77| sparing my women and | children. There | runs not a drop of my | blood in the | veins of | any | living | creature. This | called on me | I have | sought it; | I have | killed | fully glutted my | vengeance. for re- | venge. | | many; I have I rejoice at the beams of peace; but I do not | harbor a thought that | mine is the | joy of | fear. | THE | following | most re- | markable | and | beautiful | instance of filial af- | fection ap- | peared in the | Herald, of Lima, (Pe- | ru,) to | which it was com- | municated | (justice of the peace) | a | scene of great | interest, | any | place, |I| and most rare at | any | time and cannot re- | frain from com- | municating the | same | ◄ to | you, | ▼ be- | lieving that | you will con- | cur with | me |◄ in the o- | pinion that an | act so | humble and | worthy the | best qualities of human nature, | de- | serves to be | memorated by | means of the | press. | About | eight o'- | clock this | morning, a tu- | multuous assembly of | people | in- | vaded my | house, | bringing in with them | a | venerable- | looking | man. They in- | quired for the | justice. On com de- | manding of them the | reason of a semi- | riotous col- { lection, they all be- | gan to speak at once, so that I was for a time un- | able to | compre- | hend | what was the | true | state of the case. | Having, how- | ever, at last obtained | silence, the old man ad- dressed me thus:-91 "Mr. Al- | calde, | having | buried my wife, the | mother of these | four | lads, | I | ordered | this one, | named | | Jose Maria, to take charge of the | other | three, | who have al- | ready made choice of their | elder | brother's profession. These two, | Anta- | nacio and | Dio | | nisio, are | both | married; |77|the youngest, |◄ al- though single, sup- | ports himself as a fisherman. Ever since the | | | boys was taken a- | way from me, | I have by his | labors mother of the | been living with | | | my elder son in the in- | terior; but have | never | failed to re- | ceive | care and at- | tention from the | other | three. De- sirous of coming to | Callao, | Jose Ma- | ria | wrote to | Julian, in | order that | he should pro- | vide for me, which in- | junction has given of- | fence to | Anta- | nacio, who de- | clares that, | being the second | son, the | future care of me be- | longs of | right to | him. |77| I would like to di- | vide myself into four parts, so as to give | each of my | children a | portion of my body; but as that I cannot | be, we have come before | you, Mr. Al- | calde, | | in | order that you should de- | cide which of these | young | men is to be pre- | ferred." | father had hardly finished | speaking | when the generous dis- | pute com- | menced. The Anta- nacio, the second son, I said that his | father, | having been hitherto | living with his | elder | brothers, it was now his | turn to | have pos- | session of him, by order of birth. || Dio- | nisio con- | tended that his brother, Anta- | nacio, | could not | be with his | father, because he had a great | deal to do, and | could not give his father the at- | tention he re- | quired. |◄ The fourth | son, | Julian, | repre- | sented to me that it | properly be- | longed to | him to sup- | port his | father, | as he was the youngest and un- | married. | | In truth I knew not | what to re- | solve, my heart I was so af- fected by the ex- | traordinary | picture pre- | sented to me. As I con- | templated | this | scene, the | old man, Cle- | mento, | said, "My dear | children, | my | heart | over- | flows with | satis- | faction in | witnessing your disputes re- specting | which of you shall take | charge of your old | father. ||I would | gladly | give con- - sent to you | all, | and | therefore pro- | pose to be per-mitted to | breakfast with | one, | dine with an- | other, | sleep in the changing from con- sent to house of the | third, | day to | day; |~| and | thus | keep | but | if you | do not this, | let his | honor, the | judge, de- | ter mine | what shall be | done with me." [7] The young men u- | nanimously re- | jected | this propo- | sition, be- | cause they | said their | father would | lead an idle, errant, un- | quiet | life. I then pro- | posed to write on | separate | pieces of | paper the | names of the | sons, and let the de- | cision of | chance | settle the | question. While I wrote these | papers and doubled them, | and | put them | into the | hat of Cle- | mento, | which served as a ballot-box, a deathlike silence |