The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-06-22
Arizona and the Apaches.
From the San Francisco Alta of June lstl

rum the San Francisco Alta of June 1st-
 | At last there is a prospect that something IS going to be done in Arizona, something that may have the effect to change that land of blood and Indian atrocities into one of comparative peace and security. For more than twenty years of nominal American rule, it has been simply a farm of the white mans industry, and field of liis mining adventure, | the crops of which, and tue results of which have been at the mercy of the merciess It has been the land of Golgotha, a carnival of death, a country of savage ierocity on the one hand, and of weakness and yaclllation on the other. Tbe atrocious acts of the murder ing Apaches have been palliated by those crack-brained enthusiasts of the peace doe | urine, who would fain contend that a race "f wretches who are incapable of the sentiment of mercy may be restrained by a moral max i'm ot Plato or C0ntucius, or Christian one uttered by one of their dying victims
 Time and again there has looned up a prospect that the woes of that most misera- ble of all our country's possessions, were 10 be ended by a vigorous prosecution of the forcing principle against the savages, who have from time immemorial been the contin- ual curse of the country. Military forces and able commanders have been sent there, and preparations made to do something. No soon- CT has this become known than A set of spec ulative scoundrels have set their wires to defeat the only measures that can by any possibility ever reduce the Ishmaelites of the Territory to quletness, In order that they might continue to grow rich out of the spoils of their nefariOus swlndling or the soft-head- ed hypocritical winners, like Colyer have in- teryened by misrepresentation, ana induced the Government to act upon the shallow opinions of ignorant, although perhaps we'll meaning men of the clerical profession, rath- CT than upon the statements of facts that have appeared so often and been endorsed by military men of experience, who have studied the situation on the ground, and face to face with the murderous, treacherous enemy. We hope this policy of uncertainty between facts and falsehoods, weakness and vim, has at last come to halt.
 Colyer represented the Apache as a much abused and misrepresented fellow, desirouS Of peace and settlement upon the reserva- tions, but the white inhabitants as the only savages and outlaws. There never was a more disgraceful exhibition of arrogant gno- rance and whining cant than was Haunted forth by this fellew, who, entrusted with mission of beneyolcnce, turned it into one of hypocrtical cant, encOmums upon the butch ering Apache, and denunciation of their vic tins past and prospective. While his words in praise of the Apache and his peaceable disposition and desires were uttered, his be loved assassins were enjoying their feasts of slaughter. All this did not satisfy the Gov ernment, which still listened to the peace policy tribe, and SO General Howard, as be- longing to one of the churches and known as an advocate of Christian doctrines, was sent down to that land of butchery to see, to hear and report. He has done all. His advent virtually for the time checked all the contem- plated movements for campaign by General Crook. General Howard listened, looked and observed, did what was possible for him to do, and there on the spot has been left to the conclusion that no peace can be had with the Apaches except through the medicine to be administered by General Crook, and has so signified to that officer. Now we hope that some- thing will be done, something which should have been done years and years ago.