Arizona citizen., 1871-10-28
GOLFER REPORTS.

surprised in perusing what we reprint from The Los Angeles Star and San Francisco Bulletin regarding Vincent
 Colyer's press reports of his dolngs and observations in Arizona. We have no doubt that the reports are made with the approval if not request of Colyer.
 It is not the first time our people have
 been grossly misrepresented by the fiimsy disguise of ascribing virtues to savage murderers and robbers which they do not possess. All Spanish and Mexican history indorsed if not written by eminent men both secular and divine, d-clares that the Apache has been a thieving murdering and torturing race for hundreds of years, and all the military commanders and nearly all the Indian Agents and Superintendents of any considerab ble experience have emphatically written the same thing, and the Executive Documents of the United States are interlarded with the like opinions by men of wisdom, experience and love for the natural and legal rights of citizens; and yet this nan Colyer whose passage through the Indian country was much like the feeting clouds, and whose every step was made under protection of the nations troops, with bribes in his hands in the shape of food, clothing and protection to secure the good behavior of the h. dians, makes such reports as we give elsewhere. There is not citizen in Arizona, but under like conditions could travel as safely among, be re- ceived as kindly and have his gifts taken with as much gratitude by the hostile Apaches as Colyer did.
 The government owes all its citizens protection as much as 1t does Colyer; the humblest has as many rights as he; the vast majority have as much wisdom gathered by experience as he; and we are justified in the belief that ninety-nine in every hundred are truer philanthropists and better men than he; yet he is clothed with regal powers which he executes with re- morseless severity; he is afforded per feet protection and with means to satisfy the demands of notorious thieves and murderers who always prefer to get what they want without taking risks, all of which, honorable, law-abiding citizens do not have on the soil of Arizona, over which it seems humiliating for an American citizen to own that the flag of the United States floats.
 Colyer says the Apaches want to be at peace, which 300 years of undis- puted history denies Jas we'll as every man of truth and practical experi[ ence); one report says he travelled without an escort, and the other is in tended to convey the same idea or that such precaution was useless, and the records of the Department of Arizona show how false are the statement and intended impression, as well also as hundreds of living witnesses he equivocates about and labors to shift the odium of turning the United States guns upon peaceable and law-abiding citizens, when there is abundant testi- mony to the contrary, as we showed iD our paper of September 30; he re- ports that all old feuds were healed, when he has only the unsupported promise of defiant and bribed Indians to that effect; he reports that the Apaches are models of chastity, when if he had heard the testimony before the late United States Grand Jury, or observed the amputated noses of the Apache squaws (the penalty inflicted by their noble lords for infdelity), bo ,,,irb+ bovo 1-nou,,, +ba +r1+h # ba