Arizona citizen., 1871-12-23

ent, listened to h1S story Of his dO1ngS
 in Arizona. It was, that his orders
 were simply to select reservations and
 endeavor to get the Apaches upon
 them; that he had no time to confer
 with the whites; that he was not at
 all responsible for the warlike demon-
 stration of Captain Nelson at Camp
 Grant, but that that officer assumed
 the entire responsibility that he did
 not respond to Mir. Wasson's letter
 inviting him to Tucson, because that gentleman had previously denounced
 him in his paper and that he did not care to deviate III anyway from what
 he believed to be his official duty, in- asmuch as he was openly threatened with assassination.
 If Colyer intended to convey the impression that THE CITIZEN or it's editor in any manner whatever threat ened or encouraged personal harm to
 him, he in this, as in all material
 things about Arizona, is guilty of palpable falsehood.-E CITIZEN. l
 He lectured at a church in this city
 last evening on the Indians of Ari-
 zona. The attendance was not large,
 but, with others from the West, was
 present to hear what he had to say.
 He was moderate in tone, apparently sincere and quite unconscious of having done injustice to anyone. He repre- sented his mission as a Christian one; that he found the Apaches very poor, very hungry and eager for peace; that Colonel Green, Lieutenant Whitman and others said they were acting in good faith, and would constantly do so but for the conduct of the whites. To every statement of these officers he seemed to give full credence. His purpose appeared to be, as is that of many here, to give the impression that the hostility of the Apaches is of re- cent origin and wholly to be attrib- uted to their treatment by the present population of New Mexico and Ari- zona. Colonel Chaves, of the former Territory, who was with me, much wanted to ask him how it happened that the Apaches were incessant ill their raids upon the Mexicans in his Territory, when they (the Apaches) occupied the greater part of the lands and were not molested by the Mexi- cans, and there were no Americans in the Territory, but he did not care to the meeting.
 1 wished to ask him, if the Apaches simply rob and murder to secure food, how 1t is that they still scalp and hor- ribly mutilate the dead, and why they so brutally outrage women and torture their prisoners of war? Facts to which he made no allusion, although he was most circumstantial and pa thetic in his portrayal of the treach- erous acts of certain white men to- wards the Indians, which have, l be- lieve, never been justified by any of persons, even in the Terri tory-and which were extreme and exceptional instances.
 There is no doubt that Mir. Colyer went to the Territory strongly preju- diced in favor of the Apaches and against the whites and has returned This has been made so clear that it Is here conceded that his selection as an agent of the Govern ment was not fortunate; and yet may you, and my constituents generally, that his representations or misrepresentations are not likely to work serious injury to the Territory, and that his influence here has been greatly exaggerated and too much inn portance attached to his mission and reports. He is now generally under stood to be an enthusiast and due al- lowance is made for his assertions.
 In making use of letter from Col onel Stoneman assailing the Territory and its citizens, as MT. Colyer did in bis report, he made no impression upon the President or Secretary of War, as they fully comprehended the inimus of all that officer now says re- garding Arizona.
 must not omit to say that the first agents for the new reservation are to DC named by General Crook, from off ,ers under his command, without re- gard to rank, and also thst 1t Is under stood that the Indians upon them are Q be put under military discipline, at east to an extent sufficient to prevent heir leaving without the knowledge ,f +na a ooop+c O,, dro u,iDo- ra t;o,c ! l,