Arizona citizen., 1872-03-30
THE CITIZEN. TUCSON, PIMA COUNTY, ARIZONA.
March 30, 1872.
HELLWARD BOUND.

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 or-General Schofield, but the title
 of this article more correctly point:
 out his destination. By pointing out
 his errors, we had faint hopes of sav-
 ing him by and by with some en-
 durable virtues, from official perdi-
 tion and total execration. For a
 time we were encouraged, in con-
 sequence of his temporary reforma-
 tion ill the matter of terrible drunken
 ness, and if 8 cowardly court-martial
 had not placed him ill worse con-
 dition than before he was brought be-
 fore it, with our honest help, he might
 now have been struggling upward
 instead of plunging downward. Whit
 man Is no more our enemy than he is
 of all the citizens of Arizona, but as
 an enemy, we have felt it to be our
 duty to sternly admonish him, for
 mild words in his case were useless. But he continued his fortunes with
 outcasts of official and other ranks,
 and seemed to prove the classical aphorism that "easy IS the descent into hell "--whose gate stands open night and day. He may have been so delighted with these facts that he did not go on to the next sentences
 which say: But to retrace ones steps, and escape to the upper regions, this is work, this is a task. These truths seem to have been disregarded or overcome by his souls strong passion and ardent desire to twice swim the Stygian Lake, twice to visit the gloomy Tartarus, so he zealously pursued the desperate enterprise, and 8 desperate" one he is now under stood to regard it.
 Right here we may as well refer to the fact, before stated in these columns, that Whitman consistently refused to obey the orders of Generals Schofield and Crook prescribing reasonable re- straint to Apaches whose professions of peace were known to be false ; therefore General Schofeld ordered him in arrest for disobedience of orders and bad conduct-too bad for descrip- ton here-and this week he passed here for Crittenden to await trial.
 The fact that he is taken from the post and theater of his bad deeds to 0 post commanded by officers who are strangers to himself, and 12O miles distant, far from his strikers and affi- davit men and disreputable associates generally, is one the disgrace and point of which even he is understood to in some measure realize. The fact he has the form, and has had the de- cent recognition of tolerable humanity, prevents us from exulting over his headlong race to complete ruin. His model and patron of mendacity is equally as contemptible but not quite in so disgraceful and desperate condi- ton; the extent of Colyer's degreda- tion is known, but Whitman's is not and seems deplorable to contemplate. But two weeks ago, Whitman was try ing to tarnish the good name of Gen. eral Howard by claiming that each was the others friend, and in the Generals coming victory again crown ' d his bad course. About that time, ne left Tucson with this vain boast, lnder the exhilerating influence of Charles Heidsicks or the Widow Cli- I luot's best, only to fairly reach his savage flock and find General Scho- ield's order. |,
 Whitman, if we were disposed to make pyramidal exhibition of the ( ,fficial scalps taken within ten months, helped off by THE CTrI-