The weekly Arizona miner., 1871-12-23
ALAS. POOR VINCENT.

We have good and sufficient reasons Tor
 believing Vincent Colyer to be thief and coward, and VIC are quite certain that he isa
 liar, demagoguc, and dangerous man. This Icing rie case, we cannot but rejoice at the III success which has stared him in the face at every step in his career of infamy. Laugh ed at by the Indians; detestcd by all honest citizens and soldiers; snubbcd by the Presi- dent, Secretary Delano and other high Gov ernment officers; in disgrace with his CO., plunderers of the Indian Ring for his clum- sy working up Of very delicate affair {; bounded by \ goodly portion of the Press {; cursed by the relatives and friends of those who have been murdered ard robbed by trcacherous savages whom he fed, petted and proclaimed peaceable and friendly, at time when he was rushing from point to point in this Territory, guarded by an officer and about twenty cavalrymen; this old craven, who would grow rich off the sutferings of both whites and Indians, stands in no envia- ble light before his feIlow-ci,izens, and is as eGectually squelcbed as if lightning had struck him. Had his policy been adopted and carried out, the Government would have been robbed ot millions Of laon.y .so ;ui.- ans would, for a while, have been pampcred and cajoled by Colyer's agents; then they would have been robbed of their rations, etc, driven 10 desperation and 10 retaliating upon white citizens, who, were they to pur- sue their savage prosecutors to Colyer's res ervatons, would be confronted by United States troops and guns, and shot down like dogs in case they attempted to get back their property, or retaliate upon red murderers,- ride the Camp Grant affair.
 This was Colyer's plan, and he tried to bribe citjsens of this Territory into working for its adoption But, in this he was not very successful. Citizens knew that the Apaches had not asked for peace that Col yer's plan had often before been tried, and failed that an Apache was never yet known to stick to an agreement, even with other Indians; that to make them good Indians, they woaii first have to undergo the whip ping process, after which they might, through fear let their neighbors alone.
 Far better would it be for the whites, were the Indians settled upon reservations, for then our people would be paid for wha, the Indians now steal from them in the way of provision of every kind Bat, we have 50 faith in their future good conduct, even upon military reservations, and believe that after having whipped them, Government will have to remove the remaining members of the tribe to some sea-girt island. We are. how ever prepared to be disappointed in this par ticular, and sincerely hope we shall, for, de- spite the bloody, treaeherous career of the Apaches, there is not to-day in this immense Torritory A white man--soldier or citizen who would not do moro, at his own ex- pcnse, for "goOd" Apache, than yincen, Colyer or any of his co-laborers.
 Had Colycr come here at his own expense. gone among the Apaches alone, and tried, by words and acts of kindness, to win them from their horrible mode of living, instead of having had Government to foot his heavy bills, and of having sympathized with the Apaehes, and assured them that they .hca,d have matters all their own way, if they would only go upon reservations, once in ten days, and draw rations, so that Colyer and his gang could get to handle heavy sppropri- ations of money, the citizens of this Terri tory might have looked upon him as sn hon. est but misguided man, and President Grant, Secretary Delano, General Sherman, and other prominent men, would not have been forced to treat his propositions as plans for | enriching himself and his packers by keeping | this section of the country in continual tur- moil
 Thank God, the coast is now clear for Gen erals Schofeld and Crook, and our word for | it they will bring about lasting peace, at a | far less sacrifice of blood and treasure than l could Colyer and his gang.