eld, a building of poles was
erected, in which to hold the council; around this, the army
encamped. A large white oak having been peeled, Dunmore wrote
upon it in red chalk, "Camp Charlotte," thus honoring the then
English queen.--R. G. T.

[30] Logan was the Mingo chief, the massacre of whose family
at Baker's Bottom, the previous April, has already been
described. He had just returned (October 21) from a foray on
the Holston border, bringing several scalps and three
prisoners, when the trader Gibson and the scout Simon Girty
were sent to him by his lordship.--R. G. T.

[31] Colonel Benjamin Wilson, Sen. (then an officer in
Dunmore's army, and whose narrative of the campaign furnished
the facts which are here detailed) says that he conversed
freely with one of the interpreters (Nicholson) in regard to
the mission to Logan, and that neither from the interpreter,
nor any other one during the campaign, did he hear of the
charge preferred in Logan's speech against Captain Cresap, as
being engaged in the affair at Yellow creek.--Captain Cresap
was an officer in the division of the army under Lord Dunmore;
and it would seem strange indeed, if Logan's speech had been
made public, at camp Charlotte, and neither he, (who was so
materially interested in it, and could at once have proved the
falsehood of the allegation which it contained,) nor Colonel
Wilson, (who was present during the whole conference between
Lord Dunmore and the Indian chiefs, and at the time when the
speeches were delivered sat immediately behind and close to
Dunmore,) should have heard nothing of it until years after.

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_Comment by R. G. T._--Withers thus shortly disposes of the
famous speech by Logan, which schoolboys have been reciting for
nearly a hundred years as one of the best specimens extant, of
Indian eloquence. The evidence in regard to the speech, which
was undoubtedly recited to Gibson, and by him written out for
Lord Dunmore's perusal, and later "improved" by Jefferson, is
clearly stated in Roosevelt's _Winning of the West_, I., app.
iii.

[32] The reason for the attack was, that the Mingoes were
implacable, and Dunmore had learned that instead of coming into
the treaty they pur