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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... "
Poems in Two Volumes: Containing Gertrude of Wyoming and Miscellaneous Pieces - Page 6
by Thomas Campbell - 1810
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell

Thomas Campbell - Bookbinding - 1837 - 360 pages
...will perceive that I have attempted to paraphrase its concluding and most striking expression: — " There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature." The similar salutation of the fictitious personage in my story, and the real Indian orator, makes it...
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Life of Joseph Brant--Thayendanegea: Including the Border Wars of ..., Volume 1

William Leete Stone - Indians of North America - 1838 - 540 pages
...the last Spring, in cold blood and unprovoked, murdered all the relationsof Logan, not even sparing my women and children. There runs not a drop of my...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...
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Life of Joseph Brant--Thayendanegea: Including the Border Wars of ..., Volume 1

William Leete Stone - Indians of North America - 1838 - 568 pages
...the last Spring, in cold blood and unprovoked, murdered all the relationsof Logan, not even sparing my women and children. There runs not a drop of my...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...
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A History of the State of Ohio, Natural and Civil

Caleb Atwater - Natural history - 1838 - 420 pages
...unprovoked, murdered all the relations of Logan, not sparing even my women and children. There runs not one 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 in the...
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The Percy Anecdotes, Revised Edition: To which is Added, a Valuable ...

Anecdotes - 1852 - 670 pages
...Crcesap, the bat spring, in cold blood and unprovoked, cut off all the rela-tions of Logan, not eparing She accordingly be-gan to tell him fairy tales, and odd stories, which made him l human creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it. I nave killed many. I have fully glutted...
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The Northwest Under Three Flags, 1635-1796

Charles Moore - History - 1996 - 556 pages
...last spring, in cold blood and unprovoked, murdered all the relations of Logan, not even sparing ray women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood...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...
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Gothic America: Narrative, History, and Nation

Teresa A. Goddu - African Americans in literature - 1997 - 242 pages
...Cresap, the last spring, in cold blood, and unprovoked, murdered all the relations of Logan, not sparing even my women and children. There runs not a drop...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...
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Answering Chief Seattle

Albert Furtwangler, Chief Seattle - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 188 pages
...for the murders of Logan's family, involved Jefferson in protracted controversies (ibid., 298-300). women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood...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...
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Off the Reservation: Relfections on Boundary-Busting Border-Crossing Loose ...

Paula Gunn Allen - Social Science - 1999 - 278 pages
...the last spring, in cold blood and unprovoked, murdered all the relations of Logan, not even sparing my women and children. There runs not a drop of my...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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