The Weekly Arizonian., 1870-07-02


 And yet tits from articles like the one l have just slightly reviewed that pub lie opinion in the East is made up on a matter affecting the lives aud property of hundrerds of thou sand of brate men and women in the from tier lands of the West No wonder our peopla out there turn cold ear to the exhortation of the few ministers of the Gospel who visit them This nsnbY-pam5y, sickening sen ntimentality which sheds floods of tears ever the bodies of lying, thering, numbering sava ges, brought to bay at last and stopped in their hellish work but which looks with stony eyes on the man. gled remains af the white men, women, and childern, IS almost always the work of some sleek"skined, soft voiced white-neck~clolhed, slintly brother, who would roll his eyes in hor- TOT conld he hear a tithe Of the curses tbat are daily heapoi upon his head by men, women and children who weep for dear ones murd cred be- cause of tho aid anI comfort these sama sof speeches for the Indian, coupled with the ferc~ est invectige against the white man, have liVen the enemy Tn the field One such article bzeeds more profanity and hardenog of the heart against evangelical e1hortation amongst our Western people than hundred preachers supposed to be in sympathy with it could undo in a hundred thousand years. These men would not give five months of Phil Sher,dan's g orious presence for all the Indian-Ioving par sons that ever walked the earth
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 tice at the tme, but I was doubtful of your position in the matter; but yolr editorial of Saturday, opposing the reduction of the army or the very ground that our pioneers ought to be protected against Indians, emboldens ne to make few remarks on the subject in opposition to the views taken by Justice" will not pretend to discuss the question with him while he writes a his present strain, bus will simply retort. I will take him on his own ground He says his Indian allies are our supsriors in honor, virtue, maralitT, and civilization: that as compared oith them we are drunksrdS, iars, thjeVes, seducers, cheats and siyIadlers If this bs so 1t cannot be said that we represent q superior civilization, ani owe inc Indian au example of superior for 0earanca, but oa the contrary, we are entitled to plead proyocatisn in full. Now then, with all due reverence for the rare and lofty sanss of honor Ol those noble warriors who, "Jusice' says, "know not how to lie and cheat as white m en do, and with the most exalted respect for the pure and holy virtue of those spotess matroDs 'who are d thousand times more yirtu0us than our women" l venture to make few charges againet this inaculate being, whose cause has been so eloquently stated by an advocate, so impartial that he claims to be "Jostice" psrsonifed.
 charge that the red man is the implacable enemy ot our race; that he woud drive Us from tbis continent to-morrow if he could, and IS h. saw the last "pae face sink beneath the enguIdng wave would dance for joy at our desrIcton. He has hung upon our footsteps throughout our life upon this continent, and r, tened the soil with our blood, from the surging shores of the Atlantic 10 where the calm Pacific murmurs is requiem oyer the graves of our noble dead slain by his relentless hand. The farmer In the field as he turned his urrow took no note of the glad spring time, but watched in fear and trembling not know ing how soon where he sought harvest he fight find grave, nor whether, on his return at eve, be should be greeted with wife sunny Sulue anu IHS pfatCIe or innocent cnlIuren m his rustic home, or find instead 8 blankened ruin strewn with the mangled remains Of all that WAS dear to him on earth, CT, more hor- rible still, seek anxiously for the body of his wife, shuddering if he tund it not, as be thought of the nameless outrage and inhuman orture that awaited her, compared with which even sudden murder were blessing. 4 word in your car, good friends who So sympathize witL the red man. If one of you on your re- turn home tO-night find the wife Of yourbOsom, or a sister or a daughter, outraged by one of yo1r own race you wipe ont the stain Tn blood; you pursue the perpetrator and shoot him down as you would a wild beast, and society sustains and appleuds. If the act is done south of Washington, and by persons of auothee race whose skin Is black, death and damnation heil has no punishment suficientfor the crime but if done l0est of Washington by persons of another race whose skin happens to be red, and though to it there be added murder, fire, and indisc-iminate slaughter. the matter nus: he taken cooly; there must be no haste CT pass