1To Thomas Jefferson from Luther Martin, 24 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
In your notes on Virginia, combating certain sentiments of the celebrated Buffon, you have given us an eulogium of the North American savages, and, to establish their eminence in oratory, have introduced the speech of Logan ( whom you have dubbed a Mingo chief ) to lord Dunmore, when governor of Virginia;—a morsel of eloquence, in your opinion, not to be excelled by any passage in the orations...