Arizona citizen., 1871-11-04
THE PRESS ON COLYER.

'The San Francisco Bulletin, the
 most staid and careful journal in the
 country in its criticisms, under the
 title of "Arizona Waiting" on the
 21st of October, just about the time the
 noted savage ally was in San Fran
 cisco on his way eastward, spoke of
 him and his untrue reports as follows: ::
 Quickly following Vincent Colyer's s
 bland proclamation of peace in Ari-
 zona, good will to red men, comes the
 expected announcement of another
 attack by the Apaches on the mail
 carriers, who however, this time, for
 tunately got off with both their scalps
 and letters. It would be rash to con-
 clude from this single incident that
 the Peace Commissioner has not ac-
 complished all he claims, and is not entitled to write back to Washington, slightly changing the famous lacon- ism of Cesar, Veni, Vidi, Vincent. At last accounts, General Crook had suspended hostile operations in order to give the Peace Commissioners full swing; but we are reliably informed that the General, in view of the fact that the Apaches have warred upon Mexicans for more than a hundred years, upon our own people in Arizona ever since they began to occupy 1t, and have repeatedly violated pledges of peace and friendship, thinks they can hardly be expected to keep faith now. He has been represented as saying the Apaches are not as black as they are painted; whereas he really regards them as treacherous savages, with whom lasting peace can only be made by conquest at arms, which he had prepared for, and was confident, until Colyer's arrival, he could speed fly effect.
 It has been stated, also, that Gen. eral Crook approved the action of Captain Nelson, commanding at Camp Grant, in prohibiting the approach of armed bodies of citizens, prospecting and travelling parties, within ten miles of his post. The truth is that Gen. eral Crook condemned this action, and so informed Captain Nelson, stating that the effect of his order was virtually to forbid the passage of any citizen on the public highway from Tucson to Florence. This road goes within four miles of Camp Grant, and all travellers over it are compelled by the of the territory to go armed. General Crook was anxious that every possible assistance should be given to the Peace Commissioners, that nothing should be done to inter fere with their plans, and that they should be treated with perfect courtesy and respect, as MT. Colyer's Los An geles telegram says they were; but he did not approve arbitrary measures towards the settlers, nor countenance an order likely to provoke their hos tility.
 It is due to the long suffering peo- pie of Arizona that these corrections should be made. Its has been too much the habit lately to represent 'hem'as lawless and violent, and as orovokers of trouble with the h. iians. The truth is that no Territory 'an show a more orderly and credita- ole record. Most of its settlers are picked men, intelligent and coura- 5eous, and bent upon industrious de- 7elopment of mineral resources which ' hey know to be unsurpassed in I wealth. Since the Territory was or ,anized in 1863, with the exception of 4 ne Postmaster and United States - there has not been the least efalcation. The Territory is out of s ebt, free school system is being put practical operation, and in spite of g