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" There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought... "
The Juvenile Mentor, Or Select Readings: Being American School Class Book No ... - Page 89
by Albert Picket - 1820 - 282 pages
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 9

1837 - 682 pages
...blood, and unprovoked, murdered all the relations of Logan, not even sparing my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of...country, I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel...
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Biography and History of the Indians of North America: Comprising a General ...

Samuel Gardner Drake - Indians of North America - 1837 - 642 pages
...There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins ef any living creature. Thi* called on me for revenge. 1 have sought it. I have killed many. I have fully glutted...country, I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel...
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Biography and History of the Indians of North America ...: Comprising ...

Samuel G. Drake - Indians of North America - 1837 - 654 pages
...unprovoked, murdered all the relations of Logan ; not even sparing my women and children. - There rum not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living...Called on me for revenge. I have sought it. I have kitted many. I have fuUy glutted my vengeance. Ibr my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace. But...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell

Thomas Campbell - 1837 - 332 pages
...the last spring, in cold blood, murdered all the relations of Logan, even my women and children. " There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of...creature : — this called on me for revenge. I have fought for it. I have killed many. I have fully glutted my vengeance. — For my country I rejoice...
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Cases and Controversies in U.S. History

J. Weston Walch, Kate O'Halloran - Education - 1993 - 134 pages
...blood, and unprovoked, murdered all the relations of Logan, not even sparing my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of...country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel...
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Early American Writing

Various - History - 1994 - 676 pages
...blood and unprovoked, murdered all the relations of Logan, not even sparing my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of...killed many; I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my countrymen I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear....
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The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 1, 1590-1820

Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 846 pages
...agony for all concerned ("Logan never felt fear"). Most memorable of all, he disappears without a trace ("There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. . . . Who is there to mourn for Logan? - Not one"). The truly noble savage does not complicate his...
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Mimic Fires: Accounts of Early Long Poems on Canada

D. M. R. Bentley - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 376 pages
...Logan's famous speech to the Governor of Virginia as recorded by Jefferson and quoted by Thomas Campbell ("'there runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature ... Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel to save his life" [93-94] ): "But since the...
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Off the Reservation: Relfections on Boundary-Busting Border-Crossing Loose ...

Paula Gunn Allen - Social Science - 1999 - 278 pages
...blood and unprovoked, murdered all the relations of Logan, not even sparing my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me my revenge. I have sought it; I have killed many; I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country,...
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Playing Indian

Philip Joseph Deloria - History - 1998 - 268 pages
...Joseph Doddridge's play Logan: The Last of the Race of Shikellemus, Chief of the Cayuga Nation (1823): "There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. Who is there to mourn for Logan?— Not one."60 The Indian death speech brings us full circle to The...
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