Arizona citizen., 1871-04-22
CHRISTIANIZATION OF THE
 INDIAN.

ally bcCcpGeu do eouhi III 'hooO OHh hA0'" ian churches. Nothing is more rigid ly inculcated by all divine teachers than the necessity of severe discipline. According to inspired writings, God in his just wrath destroyed whole nations of wicked people, and we do not find that any of his meek and humble adorers have ever entered 8 single pro- test against the policy, or even cen sured 1t as harsh or barbarous. Possi- bly if a nation of Indians had been divinely annihilated, the christian people of to-day would have been de- nouncing the act as ungodly. In or der to maintain the supremacy of law and the unity of our nation, nearly a million of lives were sacrificed and about as many people impoverished, and these acts are justified and blessed by millions of christian people, and on pended knees they affirm that the christian sentiment of the nation has thereby been vastly elevated and puri fled
 While President Grant and millions of sincere but, in some instances at least, misguided philanthropists de- clare that the Indian must be chris tianized by kindness, moral suasion, food, and clothing, given him in idle ness in everything but the labor of murdering, scalping and robbing law abiding citizens, we respectfully sug- gest, if his christianization be the chief object of these good people, that there are different and we'll established methods of attaining this noble end, and these methods have never been held barbarous by the christian church. The most prominent teaching of all christian sects is that punishment will and ought to be inflicted upon wrong doers-in this world if 1t can be, and certainly in the next. We believe it is generally admitted that murder is the highest crime person can commit on earth, and that assassination is the most aggravated and least excusable form of that crime, and the Indian prefers the latter style of it; yet a christian people. backed by philan- thropic administration say this horri- flying method of murCer when commit ted by an Indian deserves to be re- warded with milk and honey, lands and beeves, raiment and idleness, and that other treatment of it is barba- rous and intellectual for good. Let us cite few cases to the contrary:
 Prior to 1863, the Indians in north >ern Utah were busy in theft, murder and torture. General Connor vigor- ously hunted them in mid winter, forced them into fight. and killed nearly 400 on Bear River. Since that time, the remaining Indians up there have been harmless if not pious.
 Prior to late in 1867, the Indians in that section of country covering DOT tions of California, Oregon, Idaho and Nevada were brutally outraging and murdering quiet, lawfully disposed citizens every week, by one, twos, and fours. In that year, Gen. Geo. Crook was put in command of the sub-dis- trict of Boise, and he reorganized and revitalized the forces under him, pur- sued the savages day and night in good and bad weather, over rocks, mountains and deserts, and killed some hundreds, and since that the re- maining braves have ceased to mur- der if they have not professed christi anity
 In 1S63-4-5, the troops and citizens of Nevada met with the murderous foe, killed them by twenties and six ties, with like pacific results.
 We can but think that the work of christianizing the Apaches would be greatly facilitated and rendered last