The weekly Arizona miner., 1871-08-12
Chr ' Miner.
THE coMANCHEs AND THE PEACE
 POLICY.

The Colorado Cnie0Gin has the following article, which shows how absolute has been the failure of the Quaker policy 10 bring about A peace with the Comanches. A much worse Indian than the Comanche is the Apache of Arizona, and from this we leave the country to judge of the propriety of the last order from Washington, which, we are told, instructs Gen. Crook to cease hostilites until the Quakers shall have had an oppor- tunty of testing their persuasive powers:
 The advocates of peace policy with the Indians will find certain extracts from the official journal of General Sherman's late tour through Texas, somewhat difficult to digest. It appears that while the General was at Folt Sill, several Kiowa chiefs, among them Sa- tanta, bragged to the agent that they had participated in an attack on A train, between Forts Richardson and Belknap, and that they had killed seven teamsters and driven Oh forty-one mules. General Sherman being in. formed of it immediately ordered the arrest of three chiefs. Satsnta, finding he was in danger of getting into trouble, tried to re- tract bis boast by saying that he was present at the attack but took no active part in it that his young men wanted to have little fight and take A few white scalps. and he went with them Co show them how to make war. An explanation which, it need hardly be said, did not procure his release, and he with two others was turned oytr to the civil authorities, on the charge of murder.
 "The journal concludes as follows"
 "'The agent of the Comanches and Kiowas at this post, Tatem, has his agency near the fort. He called on the General soon after our arrival, and the first remark he made was that he had been able to accomplish nothing in civilizing the Indians. They paid no at tention to his injunctions, and continued go- ing to Texas, where they committed murders and lawless depredations upon the whites oi that section, while at the same time they were being fed from week to week by the United States. A school had been establish ed for these Indians, but he had been unable Co persuade them to send single child to 1t.
 The agent does not presume to 20 to the camp of these sayages withou, a strong guard, and he begins to realize the necessity of more rigorous policy toward them. They must, be thinks, be made to feel the strong arm of the Government, and be punished whenever they perpetrate atrocities. It is considered unsafe to go five miles from the fseS without an escort. Last summer the merciless miscreants murdered four men in ono day within three miles of the fort. Tatem has had two years experience at this post. "
 'The benevolent policy of attempting .e civilize the Indians has had long trial '; they have been fed and kindly treated for two years, without the slightest good effect. IT the words of the agent, they have no more conception of gratitude than so many wolves and they have been continually stealing horses and mules, murdering men, ravishing women and enslaying children
 "The public are informed in few short sentences how they reserve their ammunition for killing white people, hunting buffalo only with the bow and arrow. The agent says 1T fact that the peace policy is deusion and failure, and the Indians must be treated witt rigorous hostility until they are humbled Had this come from soldier or person member of any other sect than that to whicl Agent Tatem belongs, it would not probabl, have carried so much weight with it, bu when a Quaker advocates making war it i proof tolerably conclusive how hopeless is th task which his sect undertook with benevo lent intentions but mistaken ideas of the red skins.
 General Sherman's policy towards them to retaliate in detail for all wrong done b the Indians, upon tbs particular bands tha perpetrate them, The fault in this is that il most eases the raiders get beyond the reac Of pursuit, however prompt and eager it ma be, and so the Indian learns that tue chance are in favor of getting off with impunity tn next time. The activity shown of late il the punishment of hostile Indians is pcrhar an indication of the adoption of nor stringent policy to be pursued against ma rauding Indians.
 "There would be very little danger of 1T justice if tho Government were to hold whole tribe responsible for the acts of ind yidusls or bands, and iniiict retubution a' cordingly. Tine question has resolved itse into this,' says the agent, that the bordt settlers of Texas must all be annihilated ( the Indians chastised and disarmedip