The weekly Arizona miner., 1871-06-17
PEACE COMMISSIONERS, AGAIN.

General Grant seems determined to force his Peace Policy" into the Indian affairs of this Territory, despite the almost count lees proofs which the Apaches have given that they are incapable of acting toward the Government in good faith. A recent Wash ington despatch, published in the Alta, says
 It is understood that s number of the Board of Indian Peace Commissioners will be sent to feed the starving Apaches of Arizona as soon as they can be brought in upon the Reservations.
 We'll, if this additional calamity must be- fall us, VIC have but too submit. We know beforehand that no good can result from such mission, but we do know that an incalcuable amount of evil must accrue. We know that the present unhappy strife which has, for years, prostrated every bushes. of the Ter ritory and which, we had hoped, was now drawing to ciuse nuts: bc prolonged indsfi- nitely; that the Territory must remain un- developed until the most chronic cases of fanaticism shall have been relieved by con viction that the slaughter of the inhabi- tants must continue until this conviction shall have been established, and, if it be pro- longed, that the people will rise in their strength, and, frenzied by sense of their injuries, will slaughter whatever Indians may remain within their reach. In making these statements we do not aspire to prophetic perception, but simply arrive at a common, logical deduction, obtained by reasoning from cause to effect. We know, much better than even Gen. Grant, or the most astute of his Quaker Indian worshipper, the true chsrac- ter of the Apache Indians-and this fact does not imply that our knowledge of the matter is very extended, ,--and we have, like wise, some knowledge of the sentiment of the people of Arizona. The "Camp Grant Massacre" was the initiatory step toward the work of retaliation by tue citizens, and if Peace Commissioners be sent to control the Indian affairs of Arizona, (which would be equivalent to the issue of license to the Indians to kill of the people at pleasure) ], the Government must expect to hear of other massacres as general and indiserimnate.
 We regret the necessity which must drive peacefully disposed citizens to the commis- sion of acts which, however conformabIe with the law of selfpreservation," are still at variance with statutory law, and we earn. sstly deplore the hcartless stupidity which has influenced the officers of the Government to place the lives and liberty of 10000 Amer iean citizens in the hands of few religious fanatics--the very worst class of fanatics, as the history of the world since the dawn oi the Christian Era clearly proyes-wbo chant their eternal trash, from cushioned chairs in Washington, and who have never succeeded | in producing the first result which should en- title their policy to favorable consideration. There are other Indians in Arizona than the Apsches: friendly, well disposed Indians who arc in actual want and for whom Government has made hardly any provisions. II is has been determined upon to feed the hun. gry Indians in Arizona, why not feed these the Pspagos are they Co whom we refer. they have claims upon the Government which the Apaehes have not. At all events. we hope that wiser counsel will prevail and that the project of sending Peace Commission ers may be abandoned for we have httle of good to expect from the prosecution of q
 measure which must evidently work evil to
 the Government, the Indians, the people oi
 the Territory, and even to the Peace Com
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