The weekly Arizona miner., 1871-08-26
THE INDIAN QUESTION AGAIN.

,tlI arguing in favor of d people they. know lttle or nothing about. And the worst oi 1t Is, these Indian sympathzing sheets have the
 whole people of the Union for an audience, while the other side ut the question Is heard
 but by feeble few, victims. mostly, oi the savages for whom scores of mighty pa per. like the Tribune, are and have been singing their sentimental songs. That the
 misrepresentation. of the papers opposed to u> OR this question do not arise from lack
 ot knowledge of tbe true merits of the war
 that exist, between ourselves and the Apach-
 es we know to l certainty. For, time after
 tmc have tho conductors of the Tribune and other pro-lndlan paper, heen waited upon hv honest. earnest, candid citizens Of this l Territory, who, with much feeling, related plain, unyarnishtd tales ot the tcndishness oi
 our savage foe; the losses and suffering he had inflicted upon Us, which disclosure, oi horrid crimes have ultcutimes caused the pa pprs in question tO smother their "sympathy l for the Apachcs; never, however, Tor any 1 gr,at length of time. as their mawkl,h i i,hness the influence of the cuterie of thieves
 who live and thrive off their close connec- | ton with the vile Indian Ring at Washing ] ton. or some other interested motive. has m : varlahly caused them to make quick change
 of base back to the Wgwams of their bloody
 minded, but, well-beoyed wards, the ApacheS. ! And 1t Is not alone newspapers that cham ] pon red murderers in their crusade against ! civilized white men. Men-leajng men-in | high places, have allowed themselves to hc l corrupted by the thieylug "religioni~ts who
 now control the entire machinery of the ln- ! dian Department No less an individual
 than [. $. Grant, President of the Republic, l.. lasr and Ia.
 been, i, yet. used by them as putty in the
 hands of the painter; and again, as giant powder in the hands of careless miner, to
 blast all hopes of peace. quiet and security
 from out the breasts of the poor. tortured
 whites uf the border. And this man, Grant This now "illustrious" white man, was once
 90 intimately connected with savage Indians
 that he cannot possibly have forgotten the
 bloody, savage and untamabc nature of the
 brutes. But, if, by chance, he may have for
 gotten all about their savagery, we implore
 him to turn his mind backward, to Oregon
 and California, and remember the terrible
 fate of the hundreds of white men. women
 and children, who were quickly murdered in
 cold blood, or slowly tortured 10 death, by
 tribes of Indians whose ferocity and yindic-
 tiyeness were far less active than the ferocity
 and vindictiveness of the accursed Apaches of
 Arizona.
 President Grant has lived upon the border
 has. no doubt, witnessed many horrid crimes
 of red upon white, and therefore, can give no reasonable, good excuse for championing the red thieves aud murderers. Greeley and
 many other stay-where- they y-were-born gen try, he take sides with the Indians against , the people of their own race, have always been too cowardly; or too fond of ease, luxury ,b Indians, of whom their only knowledge is derived from books; from disgraced army
 officers who have resided in the Indian coun- try, and fruIa "haly" Indian agents who have ' scented, from afar of, the battle betH cen civ |, ilizarion and barbarism, and who, by judicious
 use of their influence over the "Government
 have kept the scales turning so that neither
 side has heen able ,o outweigh the other. And . this see-saw game the priests and deacOns , of the several religious denominations who now run the Indian Department, mean tC keep up as long as it will pay. They do not want the Indians conquered, for then theiI
 fat positions would be gone. And, as th, world ways, public sentiment at the East
 will back them in this. Shrewd thieves U they cIothe themselves in the livery Of Jesul Christ, and contrary to his teachings, uphold i, murder and robbery, and sanction all othcl 1 sorts of yillainy, simply because it pays to dc '' so And how long are the good and tru, z people of the Republic going to allow these " allies of barbarism to carry on in thls style r How long, we ask, are they going to allow u President Grant to humor them; to carr, out their viainous schemes, and to act a. '' chief executioner for them and their Indian U te subjects Has not Grants Quaker Indian u policy been tried long enough to satisfy al 1 fai mi Had m h have been, are yet. and will continue to b
 beneficial only to the class of lazy agents am
 self styled "Peace Commissioners" who
 while wasting the time and resources of th
 country in plotting against the whites of tn If border, are, at the same time, bringing thu country into disgrace, and assisting Indian D' to murder, rob and despoil white citizens c I- the republic.
 n Still, despite all this, the New York Ir e bIRe has the shameless audacity to ass,rt tha 'd the Indian policy of the Administration
 that of " civilization" than which A greste ss falsehood has never before been uttered ur r. less it be the other Tribune statement, tha 1- the citizens of this Territory want the Ind c. an war continued, so that they may be abl 'n to sell their produce to the Army! And thu n the high and mighty newspaper oracle neve
 allows itself to question the purity and gOoC
 ness of heart of the Apache. Oh, no The -g are beasts of another color; and that is suii er cient for the Tribune and its colabOrers d defend them against people of the race, of which, unfortunately, Greeley Co. belon re Never for moment do those pro-lndia DC white men permit themselves to think thu h. a majority of the white people of the bord' or are born Americans-of the same flesh ar n blood as the white people Of the Atlant
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