Arizona citizen., 1871-11-25
THE INDIAN QUESTION.
From The Evening Chronicle, Pittsburgh
 Pa., October 30.

| Pa., october oU.
 Even those who are most willing tC
 have the peace policy of the President
 towards the Indians, given the fullest
 and fairest trial, and who defend such
 policy upon considerations of
 humanity and justice, must admit
 that it is right the white settlers on
 the frontier should be heard, and that
 it is inexcusable to answer their ap-
 peals by styling them "brutal ruff
 tians," as Philadelphia paper did
 recently. The dispatches have in
 formed us from time to time of the
 great discontent and indignation pre-
 vailing amongst the inhabitants of
 Arizona relative to repeated Indian
 outrages, and a petition is being large
 ly signed in the Territory for pre- sentation to President Grant re- monstrating against Colyer's peace policy and enumerating the murders committed by the Apaches.
 We have received from MT. Wasson, editor of THE CITIZEN, published at Tucson, Arizona, detailed statement of the condition of affairs in that dis tant and exposed region. He states that hundreds of lives have been de- stroyed by the Indians, houses have
 been burned, settlements been aban- doned, mails captured and Govern ment property taken by force, al- though peace after peace had been made with the Apaches, only to be broken. He says that every man and woman in Arizona knows 1t would be rashness to travel alone one mile be- yond the large towns or settlements eastward from there or anywhere in Arizona except on the Lower Colorado and Lower Glla rivers, and declares that "the press of the western half of the nation with one accord has demanded that safety should be given the people of Arizona, or her civil government abolished and full sway given to the savages."
 MT. Colyer's mission is to induce the hostile Indian to go upon reserves, and there remain and keep the peace and cease to plunder His want of familiarity with the Indian character largely renders his efforts nugatory. The chiefs, according to MT. Wasson, have no confidence in him, and if Mir. Wasson IS correct, "No Indian could be coaxed or bribed to accompany him to Washington" MT. Wasson ad- dressed a letter to MT. Colyer, setting forth at length doctrine well-estab- ished in the West, that the Indian 1 respects nothing but superior force, and denying that the whites hated the Indians as such, but sincerely desired a solid peace. To this letter no reply | was granted, and MT. Colyer is ar raigned as holding aloof from the whites, and suppressing any informa- tion discreditable to the Indians.
 MT. Wasson contrasts wildly the difference between the results of the energetic policy pursued by General Crook and the so-called peace policy. General Crook, according to our au- thority, was not in the Department two months until he had order out of and the power of the force It his command aroused from inutility to acknowledged progress in the right direction. Officers and men alike gen. arally exhibited a share of that earn estness in duty and desire for success which so prominently distinguishes General Crook. The available strength of his command was soon lscertained and with all dispatch eff organized; hundreds of niles of the Indian haunts were couted under the personal supervision # the intelligent and observant con- nander; the important fact that hor- I