The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-04-20
Congress the Accomplice of the
 Apaches.

From the San Francisco Alta California March 30l
 We publish in this issue the instructions of
 General Howard and a speech made in Con-
 gress by NIT. Sargent on the Apache question.
 General Howard IS invested with "fulI powers
 "and a general discretion to be exercised as
 his own judgment may dictate in the man.
 aSemeut of the Indians. He thus supercedes
 General Crook, so far as the Apache manage
 ment Is concerned, that is if he is to exercise
 any authority. He must either do nothing,
 or he must tie General Crooks hands. Hts
 instructions are about the same as those given to Colyer and will, We presume, do
 just as much good. We regard his mission as
 a pusillanimous and foolish attempt to con-
 ciliate savages who have deserved severe pun
 ishment, who recently by leaving the Reser-
 vations have de6ed the Government to do its
 worst, who have murdered l,0OO citizens,
 most of them without provocation, and who
 never will cease their outrages until the Gov
 ernment gets back bone enough to give them
 good fight. If Towards mission 10 Arizona
 should succeed, we should expect, hereafter,
 that when a Federal official is caught stealing,
 instead of being arrested and punished, he
 will be left in charge of the public funds and
 Howard or Colyer will be sent to lecture him
 on the sinfulness of his proceedings.
 We are satisfied with Crook We put some
 faith in him because he knows something about the Indian business. He has profess sion for life his future depends upon his suc-
 cess. We do not know Howard he does not Heem to have auy regular business; he cer-
 tainly is not familiar with Arizona, does not
 intend to make it his home, and can scarcely
 be held responsible for the blunders which he commits when he is instructed by the Government to take charge of business of which he is ignorant. The mission of Howard is violation of previous promises made by high officers of the Government, including General Sherman's, whose words we italicise in that part of his letter telling General Scho
 field that if the Apaches should leave the Reservations, General Crook might feel as- sured that he would be sustained in any measure of severity which he might adopt to reduce them to submission. The folly of Col yer is now undeniablc; he has been dismissed from the public service in disgrace; his folly is to be repeated; and General Shermans promise is to be violated, but we are confi- dent that he does not approve the violation.
 We regret to see that Mir. Sargent approves Towards mission, and insnuates that the Government has been making war on the Apaches. There has been no true war-tLe hostiities have been mere sham, disgrace to the Government, and an utter failure to protect the people, The military posts, in stead of being terrOrs to the hostile tribes, have been a source where they obtained their | arms and ammunition. Mir. Sargent says the war policy in Arizona has failed. Shams gen orally fail The list of murders by Indians is long, and therefore he wants not to crush the red devils, but to give them presents and T. ,,,ly, hn linx tIIl1 dol with the Apaches as with the Sioux, and that idea betrays his ignorance. The Apaches have no such tribal organization, uo such tra- ditions, no such authoritative chiefs, no such of treaties, or regard for trea- ties. as the Sioux. A treaty with Red Cloud or Spotted Tail, will govern the conduct of several thousand warriors; but no treaty with any Apache Chief will govern one hundred.
 Mir. Sargent offers some advice to the San Francisco press. He wants us to shut up about the blunders committed in Arizona. He assures us that the Administration has settled it's policy and will carry it out We thank Mr. Sargent for his advice to us, and we shall give him little in return. We wish him to that we charge Congress with be- ing the accomplice of the Apaches in the sys- tematic murder of American citizens. We inform him that the people of California can think for themselves and do not ask the Ad- for information about the right of American citizens to protection against savages. The policy of the administration may be fixed, but the people of California have expressed, and will express, their opin- ions nevertheless. We advise Mir. Sargent further, that we deny his right to put the re- sponsibilty on the President, who cannot know all the details of governmental bus mess, and we have no proof that he has any personal opinion on this Apache question. Be- sides, it is not his place to determine the pol icy of the Government. That duty rests on Congress, and a large share of it on the Cal ifornia delegation. A duty which Mir. Sar- gent, we are sorry to say, does not appreciate. If Grant wished to thresh the Apaches, he could not do it. Congress, has not made the needed appropriations. Money is the sinews of war. Our advice to Mir. Sargent is, that be study the resolutions of the Legislature of California demanding the punishment of the Apaches, and that he urge abundant appro- priations, so that when this new humbug comes to disgraceful failure-he bearing his share of the responsibility for it, since he at tempts to justify it-General Crook may have .he full power falsely promised and foolishly denied. The authorities in Washington are he accomplices in the murder of every white nan slain in Arizona from this day forward.