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 by R. G. T._--The date is now well established--April 30. Withers is
altogether too lenient, in his treatment of the whites engaged in this
wretched massacre. Logan, encamped at the mouth of Yellow River, on the
Ohio side, was a peaceful, inoffensive Indian, against whom no man
harbored a suspicion; he was made a victim of race hatred, in a time of
great popular excitement. Joshua Baker, who was settled opposite him on
Baker's Bottom, in Virginia, kept a low grog-shop tavern, and had
recently been warned not to sell more liquor to Indians. Daniel
Greathouse lived in the vicinity--a cruel, bloodthirsty fellow, who
served Connolly as a local agent in fomenting hatred of Indians. It will
be remembered (p. 131, _note_) that Cresap's party were intending to
strike the camp of Logan, but that they abandoned the project. In the
meantime, probably without knowledge of Cresap's intent, Greathouse had
collected a party of 32 borderers to accomplish the same end. Logan's
camp seemed too strong for them to attack openly; so they secreted
themselves in Baker's house, and when Logan's family, men and women,
came over