Arizona citizen., 1872-10-12
MASTERY OF CACHISE.

SOuOTd auU tHC RlShS eo ~y ' Vandal--Opinions of The Citizen <>and People of Tucson by one of his / Admirers.
 The following letter is dated Apache Pass, A. T., October 8, 1872, and its source and tone bear testimony to its trutbfulness. Citizens of Mexico, 'of Ar1Zona an1 the Un1cUd -statos- where. should read it-not emitting the grief stricken relatives of It. Reid T. Stewart and scores of others whose grief is as keen and affliction as crushing as theirs. Here it is:
 Captain Sladen of Gen. Howard s Staff has just arrived and glves us the following information.
 General Howard IS still n the Dragoon Pass with Cachise, waiting for Cachise's people to come in. Ca- cbise is willing to make peace and\is only waiting to see what his people are willing to do, and where they will take their reservation. Howard lss sanguine of making permanent peace with Cachise.
 Cachise acknowledged that some df his people had killed It. Stewart, but says that this was before he-Cachlse had been offered peace the noble chief probably forgets the Alamqsa and Tularosa invitations and coaxlngs of 1871, ED. CITIZEN, and does not hold himself responsible for anythi ing done before he met General Howard. He would like Apache Pass as res ervation, provided the troops would leave and he had permission to dig up all the bones in the graveyard and burn them. He says that this would cancel all old scores and blot out tho treachery against him at Apache Pass,
 Captain Sladen speaks of Caehise
 -t.--llo t---+lc-l-a -l>--aaat,, q ] warrior. He (Sladen) remainedS in Cachise's camp as hostage until the return of General Howard from Apa- che Pass. He says that Cachise isN very intelligent and honest old InN .S7diei., and thinks him good Indian. notwithstanding his people killed Lieutenant Stewart and hundreds of others. Cachise told h1m long story about his wrongs, how the whites had used him badly and he only wanted to get even on them.
 CACHIsE DON'T WANT TO GIVE UP
 MURDER AND ROBBERY.
 Cachise wanted General Howard to give him permission to go down into Sonora, kill, murder, rob, andS do as he pleased and return to Arizona and be protected from Sonora troopsA
 Captain s. don't like the notice in THE CITIZEN about the peace with Cachise; thinks it is not doing How ard justice or Cachise either; thinks the people of Tucson don't want peace and are fearful that permanent peace will be made with him. He is bitter on the citizens for doubting the -tJeace policy Or n5 af2u Howard:
 We'll just add Ca few remarks.i Any person who says the citizens of Tucson are fearful that 8 permanent peace will be made with Cachise, or any other hostile Indian or Indians, is either an ignorant and presumptuous liar or grossly willful one The hearty reception General HowsSd met with last April and May by eNciti- zens generally of Tucson, as we'll as of those in all parts of the Territ5 5ry, is sufficient to prove their anxiety to work with him for peace. We re- sume the right of citizens to "douPt" still subsequently, when ninet ben citizens and soldiers have been killed by Indians in one little neighborhood of Arizona since April 27 of this lear of our Lord. Judging from the kind, cordial, aaT even zealous cooperation of the citn 'ns of Tucson in his peace efforts, we lave right to believe that this man Sladen is in no sense a repre- sentative of General Howard. If we do differ with Genera Howard. We will not write him down an ircc1ate on anything the man Sladen may say.