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Rh Extract from a letter of Judge to , Esq., dated Philadelphia, Nov. 26, 1846. “Though bred and born in the confines of civilization, Logan was, in every respect, a savage. In the days of my boyhood I heard old men speak of him, who knew him when he lived on the Kishacoquillas, near its junction with the Juniata, as sober, honest and humane; but afterwards he sought forgetfulness in indulgence: it unchained the tiger in him. Though he professed to be done with resentments in his speech, he became ferocious towards every one and so dangerous, that one of his own relations was compelled to dispatch him.”