Arizona citizen., 1871-06-03
Premeditated FalsehOOds.

place disgraced and polluted by him. He exhibits his talent in an anony- nous letter to The s. F. Chronicle. For proof, we refer any man conver- sant with the tacts relative to the Camp Grant massacre, to the following ex- tracts from said letter. This prince of liars cannot plead that he is fool, or ignorant of the truth of that affair. He can only pride himself upon his supreme turpituie and success in i'm posing his falsehoods upon promi- nent journal. He says first
 A band of hardy pioners and noble citi- zens of Tucson, Arizona, numbering, it is calculated, about 400, including Papa gos and Mexicans, led by would-be white men, &c.
 The eract truth is, there were only 146 persons of all kinds in the party.
 At ay-break on Sunday morning 300 of these men came down in all their strength on an encampment of 500 Indians (abOut l50 of these were men, the rest were women and children) that were under the protection of the Government, having surrendered themselves and being con- sidered prisoners of war.
 Here is a climax of untruths. As there were but 146 of "these men," no more could have led the attack. Instead of there being 300 Indians in Camp, there were not over 15O, the other $50 being off roaming about commit ting or trying to commit deeds of murder and theft. If they were ''un- der the protection cf Government" why were they not protected! We presume the royal Whitman then in command, is too trifing to protect any thing-either Whites or Indians.
 Out of the 500 there encamped, and de- pending on the Government for protection, there were murdered in the most fiendish manner seventy children, and eight bucks, as they were running away, were dropped in their tracks. About thirty children and one woman were taken captive. The woman was afterward shet and her hair cut of to decorate the horses of those gal lant warriors. MT. Lord, the United States Treasurer at Tucson, A. T., had the manhood to express his unqualified disap- proval of this massacre, and he has been threatened with dose of tar and feathers by these inhuman butchers
 As to the killed, the writer again falsifies the facts. He makes out 7S killed, when there were certainly not less than S5, and not less than 2S were bucks full grown. As to the decora- tion of horses with woman's hair, we can find no evidence of its truth, and the fair presumption is that it is a de- liberate falsehood. As to violence to Dr. Lord, we moved about freely, and heard much, and no threats of the kind came to our ears; and if such had, we should have promptly de- nounced them. Dr. Lord has, in our presence, been as unsparing in his strictures on the policy of feeding Apaches, and permitting them toroam abroad at pleasure as we have. He has not resided eight years in Arizona without realizing the enormity eff such a policy.
 My belief is that in fendishness and atrocity it surpasses any deed of crime that has been enacted since the establi ment of this republican Government.
 Of course, such a brazen liar and hater of industrious and honest men trying, as did the pioneers of every State in the Union, to make homes and competence, and for whose pro lection Camp Grant is maintained, would ignore the untold massacres and nameless tortures of whites of all ages, sexes and conditions, and pronounce this mere killing as quickly as possi- ble, more atrocious and fiendish, sim ply because guilty Indians and not in nocent, self-sustaining, tax-paying citizens, their wives and children were the victims.
 The deed was not done because they were guilty of any crime of late, but from a natural dislike these Territorial people have of seeing them on Reservation.
 Incontestable evidence of their recent atrocities were found in the camp and on the persons of the slain, and has been published in these col umns and telegraphed all over the country. There is not the least dislike on the mart of "these Territorial neo-