The weekly Arizona miner., 1870-02-12
Protection Badly Wanted for Ari,on
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From The New York Journni sf csEzrasscs
 Governor Stafford of Arizona, k now ;p,n, city, on his way to Washingtop for the nm, pose'of securing additional nhlhary pr1,sr. ton for that Territory. He has phn ,n proved by General George II. Thomn ,5a other eminent army officers whom he b,. consulted. which he proposes to submi, 10 the Federal authorities. IL seems to be ie,s. ible and merits trial. At present the Apach, Indians are scoureing industry snd enterprs. of every description out of Arixons. Or keen. ing them within the narrow and guarded lin- it's of few of the principal towns. 0f iii the American Indian tribes, the Apsches s,e indisputably the worst. They are monsien of revenge and cruelty. praeticing refinement, Uf torture upon captiYes compared with wbeA the worst horrors of the Spanish inousitiop were mid, Possessing ali the deep cunning of their race, they are, when in cotriderabj, numbers, formidable foes to small bands of white men. Within the last two years their successes have emboldened them, and thsir raids upon small white settlements have been more daring and bloody than erer. Accord ing to a tabular statement, one ninth of ID, able-bodied white population has been killed wounded or missing in engagements with toe Apaches within eighteen months; and ih. retirement from service of nearly oDe.haIf of the fifteen hundred United States soi1ien now on duty there, at an early day, raise, the alarming query--whst will become of ih, rest of the white inhabitants? Unless some thing is done by the Government, it seem, only a question of time when the whites will be extirpated or driven out from that snrif erous and in many other respects rich snd valuable Territory Besides the claims which peaceful and law-abiding Arizonians have uI- on the general government for protestion, duty is obligatory upon the authorities to ds- fend the mails, which are now exposed 10 the most frightful risks in the passage across thu infested region. Within year DO less .hm three mails have been stopped, the gaar1s and passengers all killed. and tho letters destroyed. To put an end to all tbrse muT- ders and outrages, Governor SaHord dtsie.a force of not more than four thousand iroops --say three thousand cavalry and one thou sand infantry. This number would be suh- ] cient, in his opinion, to hunt the Apacbes into their hiding places, to break up ihtif largest parties, to keep them perpetually on the move, and either drive them into Mexico l (which is their natural destination when mo lested) or to kill of in encounters a large pro portion ot their warriors, and compel the rest to feel that they are al last conquered and to sue for peace. He does not advocate the extermination of the Apacbes as soHs do, but only to force them to realize that they have at last met their masters, and ihst there can be no compromise between clearing out of the Territory and settling down on reservations like other Indian tribes. Wben subjugated he would have them treated sish the utmost kindness and humanity. t stbe belief Of Governor Stafford and of other Ar'- zonians competent to form an opinion on ir subject, that one year of earnest iDilliaI. operations with four thousand troops would suffice to break the power of the Apache and terrorize them into submission. The h tempt should be made. There is manifest incongruity in spending millions of dollars 10 buy new lands that we do not want snc re fusing to expend reasonable sum to msEe territory that we already have, and tha'h worth having, habitable by civilized oelng and source of great revenue 10 the county The regular troops, it is hardly necessary 70 say, would be auxiliary to the efforts oi ins citizens of Arizona, who have hitherto, "i'D their limited resources, done tho best par' 0' the fighting.