The weekly Arizona miner., 1871-10-14
THE INDIAN QUESTION, AGAIN.

Heretofore, in discussing this yeXatious
 question. we have, undoubtedly, used intem-
 perate language, and who, after reading the
 long list of murders and robherie- committed
 by our savage foes, which we to-day present,
 can blame Us for having done so Indeed,
 the knowledge of these appalling crimes, and
 the further knowledge that the mscalled
 " Peace" policy ot President Grant i, in
 great measure responsible for many of them,
 and will, if 1t be longer pursued bring about
 more, has quickened the public pulse here
 and fired the hearts of our people against the
 red and white authors of the sckenng ca
 iamities that have been mercilessly
 dealt out to them. And, this lst-long though it be-does not give over one half our brethren who have fallen victims 10 say age Indians and President Grants criminal "peacc' policy. Nor does 1t detail the inhu-
 man treatment to which many of the poor victims were subjected, by their remorscless murdercrs and torturcrs. No; in order to | do SO, We would have to use language that | would bring blushes to decent cheeks; detail | scenes and transactions with which the poO- ! pie of the States are happily unncquainted. l So, we will not pull aside the curtain that ] hides from public view the ghastly corpses 1 of our butchered dead of both sexes And ! these though the greatest, are not the only | grievances We have to complain of, as all who
 are acquainted with our losses in property of
 all kinds know. But, with peace and sccur- ] fly, we could soon duplicate our losses in
 property. Not so, however, our dear, depart
 -1 G.gH
 l endeayoring to carry out the destiny of their
 race. Naught can give them back Co us, and
 while the tears of the fathers, mothers
 widows, orphans, sisters, brothers and friends
 whom they have left behind flow earthwards
 and mngle with their precious blood
 drop of which was worth more to their
 country than all that fills the veins of the
 wretched savages that murdered them, and the
 criminal brood of white ttnds who back the
 sayages up,--we must not let our passions get the better of us must not pattern after our
 prosecutors, and seek ''an eye for an eye''-a
 life for a life. We mnst, however, guard our lives against the enemies who seek tO take
 them keep what little property they have
 left us from falling into their hands until
 such time change shall have come over
 the spirit of President Grant and his Indian
 Peaceh Commissioners. To effect this
 change will be no easy task, as, owing to the
 vile teachings of Colyer Co.,, many of our
 fellow citizens of the Atlantic States regard
 us in the light of trespasscrs upon the lndi- ans as bloodthirsty fellows who are ont here f seeking the blood of the red race. Now, ii such people would only permit themselves to think that the Americans of Arizona are ot l the same flesh and blood as themselves that they have been brought up in the same churche, and schools have the same keen sense of right and wrong; the same love oi % peace and quiet; the same hope of a future ! reward for the good they may do on thi,
 planet, and the same Christian dread of flu. 70 ture punishment for evil deeds, we do not l, think they would much longer cling to the { idea that, in point of civilization, etc, we arc e below the Indians. We have here churches C where the Word of God is read and cx. Q pounded; schools wherein our youth arc
 taught courts of justice whose mandates arc f respected, and the American hag---thc em r blem of justlce-to enlivcn our minds and !, keep ms from deteriorating. Then, all our peo. 7 pie labor, with head and hands, 10 acquire ! ' living; while our loes---the Indians--einploy 7 their time in skulking behind rocks and c bushes, ever ready to kill us; in stealing T from us, and in dcyi,ing new plans to drive - us from the Territory But, having often . before repeated all this, or something similar , and having shown the utter folly of bribinn l nnwhipped Indians to keep the pcare. and l. respect thc rights of American citizens. VIC