Arizona citizen., 1872-04-20

nag Ot truce had been sent into our
 lines, would we not have tried hard
 to agree and stop blood-shed So I
 say now, war when it is war, but
 peace at the first moment possible, and
 when we fight, it should be only
 civilized war. Why, have heard
 that Indian children, taken captives,
 have been thrown out of a wagon
 while moving and shot dead as they
 struck the ground. How can I be-
 lieve it That cannot be done by
 civilized men. The white people of Arizona cannot be savages. You
 have Anglo-Saxon blood in your
 veins. You may have been a long time out in this rough country, but l am sure you have not forgotten home and early education to learn barbarism of the savages that fight you. We do not need to turn savages to conquer fifteen hundred Indian warriors. Let the nation see what ought to be done in the proper way. We can send troops enough to begin at one corner of your Territory and run skirmish line straight across and move down your whole length, combing out every crawling, skulking savage; but we must see it to be necessary-must be united about it. At present the peo- pie and the Government insist on a trial of the peace policy. Let us gather these Indians on reservations and have force enough to keep them and protect them there. I am pre- pared to recommend the sending at once of five thousand additional troops, if required, to enforce the peace policy on this basis.
 Come, then, gentlemen, give us a hand-let us have peace in Arizona. Then your country will be open and safe; your mineral wealth will be developed; emigration will flow in, and the day of prosperity will dawn - not immediately - patience and firmness are always necessary. The work is slow but 1t will come along. 1 wish Agent Smith had told you what even a year of honest, patient work has done for the Indians in Min nesota. You know how cursing, drunk enness, bitterness, murder and all violence held sway among the Sand wich Islanders. There seemed to be no hope but at last the right men and right methods clrried. The whole country was upheaved and revolutionized.
 When our army crossed over on the Helena Island, off South Carolina, we found the most degraded negroes of this country. They were among the last who had been imported from Africa. When I saw them-so low, so degraded-I said, "what can be done for them or with them 7" But two teachers from Massachusetts Christian women-already on the ground, had settled the question. The children could learn-were learning like other children. That will lift up and save any people, only press 1t hard enough and strong enough, and do not confne your teaching to the school-room merely, but give it to every department of life. Vileness and disease, and death and every vice of idleness and barbarism are to be cured. Of course 1t will take time and patience.
 A little Indian orphan boy, pick ed up by Gen. Sheridan after one of those horrible massacres, in which h. dians take their turn of vengeance, was brought to Washington. They did not know what else to do with him, so they turned him over to the Freedmen's Bureau. He was sav- age, thorough bred, with all the feroc- ity ever absorbed to his race. For 0 while was troubled about him. He did not civilize. Everybody that met him seemed delighted to punch and poke him to see his fierceness and draw the savage fire. A thousand ] years of that education would not have saved him. At last Christian mother took him into her home, wash ed him, clothed him and treated him for all the world as if he were her own boy. That did it. In one year the boy was transformed. He goes i to school with my own son, and is getting ahead of him in his studies. To change his life and habits we need ed to change his surroundings. So for all barbarous people. Change their circumstances. If necessary, circumstances. It's prac- have will-to cure ,hese Indian difficulties. This is my I