The weekly Arizona miner., 1871-09-09
GENERAL CROOK AND VINCENT
 COLYER.

Here is striking Contrast--manhood ar rayed against intrigue; truth arrayed against mlsehood; frankncss arrayed against duplc' ity; patriotism arrayed against disoyaliy and theft; bold aggressive spirit arrayed against a spirit of crlnging hypocrisy. such. by Government decree, are tue sentiments 10 be harmonized in Arizona before solu- ton of the Indian problem can be arrived at As We view the situation at present, General Crook is trammced by the presence of that subsidized hypocrite, Colycr, to as great an extent as though he had actually received the order to suspend hostities pro tem Col yer, at latest accounts, was on his way to Camp Grant. at which post kindred spirit, labeled Whitman, has been instructed to col lect the common murdcrcrs. In tho mean time General Crook, ut the head of his com mand, is among the mountains faithfully struggling to carry out his instructions. He does not dream that the Government, after selecting him to perform task which so many have endeayored to perform and failed, is even now playing traitor at his back. Yet 1t is so; and so positive is the treachery that the proceedings cannot be intellgibly dis cussed under any other name. General Or ders No. II from Department Headquarters, dated June 2sth. which provides, that no officer in this Department shall make peace with, or issue rations to any Indians in this " Department now hostile (eXcepj when in |" close confnement) without permission from these Headquarters or by other authority are condemned by the Secretary of War, ! who issues direct instructions to Whitman 10 collect the hostile Indians on the military reservation at Camp Grant. Now, whether 1 it is one of |" the customs of the service we do not propose to decide, but we do know ! that 1t is q custom in the service that orders and instructions to inferior officers, from high . authoritv-unless of a personal nature-arc generally communicated through their i'm. mediate commanders. General Crook, how ever. must not be advised of these proceed ings hc IS in pursuit of the enemy and re
 members that his orders (No l4) leave him
 no other recourse than tO fight or submit ; ht
 is therefore sanguine of success, as he may
 well be. until he discovers that the Secretary
 of War has secretly frustrated his designs.
 Now. that which would seem to lis tho
 most iudicious policy for General Crook tC
 adopt is to remain passive until after Colyel
 shall have returned to the States or until h,
 shall have been scalped by soine of his pets,
 as the Fates may decide--it would be a req
 God-send should they order him to be scalp ed. If he proceed to push his campaign for ] ward as though all avenues of escape were stiI closed to the Apache, the result will be mos
 disastrous to the last hope of Arizona. Th' Indians viii flock to Camp Grant, make bogus treaty with Coiyer, who will return L Washington without having taken time t' !. observe the practical working of the treat.
 system and then will follow another patheti
 appeal on behalf of the "poor Indian whic
 will probably avail to unbridle the savage io - another term of years.
 2 We know it savers of wickedness that . !s wrong according tc the teachings of re | ligion and moraity-by which admission " ' hope to spare you, shocked disciple of hypoc
 risy, the pains of treating us to q lecture
 but we could look calmly upon that India l. who would embeIlish his trappings with Co r. yers scalp, and swear conscentiously, [ e boot, that the said redski had done much as any other man living on the Amer
 can continent, to. day, in the cause of civ U lization, justice and humanity.