Arizona citizen., 1871-05-27
OUR TURN AT THE CRANK.

tour of the Territory, and told people
 generally that if they chung their
 watches on lamp-posts at night in New
 York, they might expect to lose them'' the people rightly suspected tl.at the new Moses would prove failure of the firs5 water. These people had taken
 as good care of their stock as could be
 afforded, and were having it stolen fast
 enough; hence the just conclusion was
 that under the new regime they must
 leave Arizona, with bag and baggage.
 But there is noinstance in American
 history where the picneers-usually
 from three to thirty years in advance
 of the assistance their just due-ever
 took the back track. So, in this case,
 despite the addition ot insult to injury
 -ttey prepared for another chapter
 ill the siege. They were becoming en-
 ragged, but by reason of better counsels,
 the chasm was bridged. There is
 nothing hulniliating in exposing hon.
 orable sores to the world in general in
 seeking the most reasonable aid. The
 people and press concluded to throw off the bandages and expose the subject in all its hideousness, and in forms of speech that displayed nothing of the professional supplicant, but an honest sufferer before the world and powers that be i'll such cases provided. When
 the general press of the country once thoroughly understood the appeal, the thunder was unmistakable and heard all round the sky. The united Press of the country is "The Watch on the Rhine" of the American people, and the original Watch, etc. was no more fatal to rotten France than was Stone mans "watch on lamp-post" to him.
 And now, if the people and press of Arizona should naturally want to take a turn or two at the crank and roast him week or two on the spit of his own setting up, he must try and "keep his seat, Mr. Greeley" The manner of that man Stoneman toward this people was most astounding-wholly ountable according to the spirit and civilization of the age. Not con- tent with seeing the entire Territory burning at the old stake; not content with adding new fuel to the fame,- he must, at safe distance, dance and mock at the victims calamity. He appears to have studied 'how not to do the very important and serious work given him, and turned his high position into a machine for social of all below him; lacking the discernment to foresee that sooner or later this sort of thing would have an end. The common verdict of the people seems to be that, previously his life was but a budget of lost opportu- mites; that he had 'soured' on the world and must take this method of getting even.' Delusive resolve! We that the command of the Army of the Potomac was forced up- on certain general, and who wofully failed; and the country honors that man second hardly to none for his self knowledge and frankness. On these terms. the people of Arizona-mad and injured as they are, would forgive if not forget the career of Stoneman therein. On the other anxious ly as they have watched and waited here to make comfortable local hab- tation if not name, we doubt if any of this people would not rather be the veriest Chinamen raking the gutter for rags and rats, than the "Colonel commanding" etc. That celebrated ,eport-sounding so much like school children to their parents: With pens n hands, we take this method of you that we are all well, md Io.,c 4I-o l