The weekly Arizona miner., 1871-07-08
THE INDIAN RING.

The story of the "wrongs" suffered by the Apache Indians in Arizona, at the hands of the Government and the people of the Ter ritory has been so clearly stated by the Press of the West, wc had almost arrived at the conclusion that the whole business was un- derstood and the matter at rest. But this is not the case--at least in so much as the tran quilty of the public mind is concerned. The fanatics of New York and Washington are sgain up, and ready to offer the last settler in Arizona as . sacrifice to their gOd-this deity being no other than the accursed Apache Indian who has been spreading deso- lstion and death along the whole South western frontier, ever since the advent of the first American citizen. It is well known that fanatics are the most incorrigible class of hu- man beings, and, when self-interest is allied with this, reclamation becomes an impossi- bility of the blackest and most hopeless or der, and the subject is no longer human ex- espt in form.
 Now, in the name of your hundreds of white victims, whose manged and mutilated bodies lie buried in every canyon and along every highway and by-wsy in Ari. zona, we ask you, atrocious fanatics, who, under cover of religion and humanity con tinue to murder our brave, industrious peo- pie by your cold. blooded savage agents, do you intend to desist, or is it prearranged by you that this country must be restored to :he sayages2 Why is it that E. $. Parker, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in bis report to the Secretary of the Interior, must recom- mend that the hands of the military com. msnder O! this Department be fettered, while he states in connection, his conviction that troubles exist, the nature of which he has not learned otticiallyl Again, who can ex- plain the motives of she New York Tri5une philosopher iu publishing deductions pur- porting to show that the Apaches kill only when they wish to ayenge the murder of one Of themselves, when thi. deduction is, purely, A production of his own prejudiced brain, and unsustained by any article ever written or published in Arizona2 We gre told by the Tribune that the killing of Lieutenant Cushing was the work of rvvenge.n IT an officer, al the head of g men, go forth to fight Indians, and, when about 100 miles from the nearest settlement, meet and engage band of some 100 Indians, at their home, and happen to be killed in battle, is this re- venge, as expressed by the 7ri5Hnsi Ii so, Lieutenant Cushing was " killed in revenge. .h But no, he was not the victim of revenge on the part Of tho Indians; bis blood stains the hands, not ot the ignorant savages who dis. charged tbe weapons, bat those of Parker, Colyer, Greeley and others who guided their aim It was be who sought revenge; and for what for the murder of some ten men and women, among whom were L. E. Woes ter, Trinidad Aguieri, Mfr. Long, Mr. Me kenzie and Mark Rsyeiin, all of whom were murdered by Apache Indians, within a pe- riod of less than four weeks. It was thus the brave young officer lost his life and his name will be endeared to the people of tho frontiers when the names of his murderers and their savage sgents will have gone down to posferity branded with the infamy which they courted through life. It would be use less for us, with even all the aid which might be extended by the Press of the Pacific States and Territories, to endcavor to con. vince this Indian ring ot the facts. Pam- pered by President Grant and listened to by Congress, these peace fiends have become so idiotixed, by successful everything except the object which is regarded ss their mission that conviction is hopeless and reformation impossible. The only hope which remains with us Is, that better influences may prevail to disband the infamous rabble-leaying the management of Indian Affairs in the hands of men Of sense and judgment, who, if they sin, will do so conscientiously, and not sfter the manner of the present Indian ring. who stand before the world with the stcalings of office in one hand, sermon in the other and the word Of God mingled with dslibsr. ate fAisehoods trembling on their lips.