Taking him aside, he suddenly addressed him in a speech that will always retain its place as perhaps the finest outburst of savage eloquence of which we have any authentic record.

The messenger took it down in writing, translating it literally,[51] and, returning to camp, gave it to Lord Dunmore.

The earl then read it, in open council, to the whole backwoods army, including Cresap, Clark, and the other scouts.

The speech, when read, proved to be no message of peace, nor an acknowledgment of defeat, but instead, a strangely pathetic recital of his wrongs, and a fierce and exulting justification of the vengeance he had taken.

It ran as follows: "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 camp, an advocate for peace.