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Pioneers of the Old Southwest

CHAPTER VI
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In this treaty the Mingos refused to join, and a detachment of Dunmore's troops made a punitive expedition to their towns.

Some discord arose between Dunmore and Lewis's frontier forces because, since the Shawanoes had made peace, the Governor would not allow the frontiersmen to destroy the Shawano towns.
Of all the chiefs, Logan alone still held aloof.

Major Gibson undertook to fetch him, but Logan refused to come to the treaty grounds.

He sent by Gibson the short speech which has lived as an example of the best Indian oratory: "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 remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace.


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