Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Logan's Speech...
...TIME appearing in the May 3 issue, Mr. Mark W. Cresap denies that his ancestor, Captain Cresap, murdered the family of Logan, the friendly Mingo leader. Logan himself believed otherwise, as appears from his reply to John Gibson, an emissary from Governor Dunmore of Virginia, in 1774. His speech is regarded as a classic example of the simple, direct, dignified style of the Indian. It may be found in Vol. VII, The World's Best Orations, p. 2569 (1901 edition), and is as follows...
...sending Logan's words to you I do not mean to question Mr. Cresap's statement that the Captain was entirely innocent of the charge. Logan may have been misinformed, as indeed I hope he was. I send the speech to you because I think it will interest you, as it does...
...Nations gathered at Chillicothe, Ohio, for a peace conference. Governor Dunmore particularly requested that the bereaved Logan be presentment a messenger for him. The messenger returned without his man, but with a "morsel of eloquence." Comments the Dictionary of American Biography: "The exactness with which [Logan's] speech was repeated at the conference must always be open to question...
...revolt against his domination when, in April 1934, President Roosevelt got back from his Southern fishing jaunt. Yet 30 Senators and 200 Representatives were at the station with a band to greet him. To them he then addressed, in grim good humor, his famed "tough guy" speech: "I have come back with all sorts of new lessons which I learned from barracuda and sharks . . . etc., etc." (TIME, April 23, 1934). Within a few days the revolt was over and Congress settled down to whip through the President's long list of "must" legislation...