Arizona miner., 1867-11-09
The Alta, Miner, and General McDowell.


 The Ib1 CHtorpia. newspaper that makes it point to wear the collar of every party. sect and man that happens to be in power and place, pitches into the MINER in ferocious manner. We suppose the old turn coat sheet expected 10 "nip Us in the bud with its weighty "gunny-bag' " logic But, thanks 10 our good Democratic constitution, we expect to survive this attack and spike it's old quakergun before getting through with it. The seusclcss old cacklcr. in order to please its present drivers members of the Radical State Central Committee of Cali fornia-hing> the worn-cut epithet of Cop perhead at Us, us though H were an origin al dyed in-thc-wool Republican sheet We should think its conscience if it has any of that article left. would smite it for Eliminating doctrines that everybody acquainted with its past history knows it does not indorse. The people of the Pacific coast have not forgotten that tEe Radical Alto of to-day. before the commencement of the late war favored and defended Secession, and if our memory serves us rightly, it also talked glibly in favor of Pacific Republic But the war commenced: public sentiment in California was with the Coercion party. and the liio, like faithful weather-tsa, Tapped her wings and Topped over to the dollars and cents side of the ques- ton. After the war terminated, Mother Goose, thinking that Andy Johnson, surnam- ed Moses by its African pets, was "a gwine f ha lo ggr,,ir -t. .1.I, the Dantons, Marats and Bobcspicrres of the Couiiscation party. But soon thereafter a change came OCT the spirit of its dream Thad. Stevens got Andy's thumb in his mouth, and made him sing out enough .n Thereupon. the fto seeded from Andy. thus leaving our tailor President without a goose After this sudden change of base the old hag. in order to make q show of devotion to the cause espouscd by her. howled fcrccr than the liercest. in favor of disfranchi,ing re6eis, confscating what little property was left them after the rayages of the terrible war from which they had just emerged, and giving it to the blacks IL did this for the purpose of ingratiating itself into favor with the party that short time previous, threatened 10 de- molsh it in the same manner in which they destroyed the Deuocrotic Pres. But, after it got over that scare. it made up it's mind not to be caught in such trap again, and, with more than its usual indecent haste. em- braced all of Africa ami goodly portion of Asia, turned its batteries upon the laboring whites of it's State, and tried to force them down to a level with semi-civilized Asiatics and African fetish-worshippers. Again it missed its aim. The party to which, through fear and selfish motives, it has attached itself. has been twice beaten in its State, and the old hulk is now floundering about in sea of uncertainty, preparatory to making one more desperate effort to flop ight side up aith care"
 It takes us to task for jocose squib which we fired at General Mcdowell, and rushes to the defense of that gentleman in truly Quix- otic style IL accuses Us of criticising the military acts of that officer. thing we are innocent of. The MiNfR has no quarrel with General McDowcll. and does not wish for any, but, as ours is now. or soon will be a free country, and as oiiicals-both civil and mi iitary-are but the servants of the people. we claim, and will exercise, the right of ex- pressing an opinion upon matters of vital in terest to our people. We said that a large number of the citizens of Arizona were led to believe that General Mcdowell was so blame for not furnishing n sufficient number of troops to protect life and property in this II
 Territory, and, believing this to be the case. l the MINER said no more chan the Aha or any other paper would have said if occupying its position in the Territory. Until General Mcdowell published his letter stating that he had no troops to spare us, we had an idea that there were plenty of soldiers lying about loose in California, and, O! course, it was our duty to "stir him up" little.
 The Copperheads,' as the Alta calls the
 Democrats of this Territory, happen to be
 the only people here who raised their voices
 in opposition to the preamble and resolutions
 indirectly charging General Mcdowell with | incapacity and base motives, which was intro
 duced and voted for by Radical members of
 our Territorial Legislature. The Democrats
 who spoke and voted against the preamble and resolutions did not wish to censure Gen. ! Mcdowell until thoroughly satisfied that he was the person chargeable with the wrongs
 our people have suffered
 Again we do not see the necessity for a
 scarcity of troops upon this coast, where they
 are so badly needed. The Radical friends of
 the Alta have plenty of soldiers to send south
 to the Five Kingdoms" to crush out liber- | ty and encourage Cuifee to lord it over white