As a man of the Romantic Era he saw them as unspoiled, the "noble savage". ... They were romantic characters to the young lad when they stopped at the Jefferson home on their way to Williamsburg. ... Jefferson further expounded on the Indians' ability to speak in his Notes on the State of Virginia: I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of many more prominent orators, if Europe has furnished any more eminent, to produce a single passage, superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, to Lord Dunmore when Governor of this State. ... Jefferson's use of pol...

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