The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-10-20
QUAKERISM IN ARIZONA.

lCNlla1 u tIIS SAplolio III
has lately achieved in Arizona, by
which the Indian war has been stop
ped and peace and good will scat
tered promiscuously all over that
Ap1che-outraged country. This Col
lier closes his account by describing
the tender and affectionate leave
taking he had with the blood-stained
savages at Camp Grant. After dis
tributing food and clothing among
them, the chiefs of the Apaches came
up to him to say goodbye, remark
ing 1T could only have been God
who put it in the heart of the Presi-
dent to send him down to treat them
so kindly, or else he must have had
a very good father and mother"
Now these savages may be very we'll
acquainted with God. and may have
a very high appreciation of those
lCIIt1I QUANTITIES WHICH uldhc ii SOOu
father and mother. but is is unfor-
tunate that they have concealed their
knowledge 30 carefully to themselves
during a twenty years exercise in
devising fortunes for whiteprisoners.
Vincent Collier has probably stop
ped active hostilities in Arizona for
the present. Inafew weeks we shall
read of new atrocities, murders.
robberies, CONGREGATIONS, and set
tiers stung to madness will again
break owe army regulations, and
begin again the war of extermina-
ton. Collier protracts, postpones
the war, but does not close it. 1t
cannot end until the savages are ex-
tirpated, OF so nearly extinguished
as to feel that a death penalty hangs
over the slightest deviation. The
citizens of Nevada had to conquer &
peace, and the citizens of Arizona
will have to conquer theirs. Quaker
agents of the Government and In
dian Commissioners may palaver and
pray, carry white flags and distribute
provisions to the enemy, but every
old frontiersman knows the ineyi-
table result. Gen. Grant must know
it. He served too long among the
Indians on the Columbia river not to
know something of their natures,
and of the ~irrepressible conflict
which goes on forever between them
and the prevailing race. We can
only account for the strange orders
which have emanated from Washing
ton by remembering that the close
of a war in Arizona would carry with
it a shortening of army contracts,
and a general closing up Of business
among the parasites who follow in
the ear Of IN active campaign. Gen.
Grant has a brother-in-law on the
border of Arizona who holds one of
the most lucrative positions in the
Union connected with the supply
department How much the action
of the Administration may be infu-
enced from this quarter we do not
know, but that influences of a pecu-
MARY nature are operating on Gov
eminent orders in Arizona is a con-
clusion almost irresistible. General
Crook. if left alone, would have
soon conquered an enduring peace
in that Territory. That peace is not
wanted at headquarters, is clear,
from the fact that he is not left alone.
His expedition is ordered to stop,
and go into quarters, at the very
season OF the year when it could be
most serviceable in the field. The
old order of things is restored. The
murders recommence. The pastfve
years is to be lived over again.
1t would be interesting to know
why the American people are sup
porting a large army, if it is not, to
be used to protect American lives
and interests? The Government
found power enough to suppress the