Arizona citizen., 1872-01-06
THE APACHE QUESTION.
From The Christian Union (Henry Ward
 Beecher's paper), Nov. 9.

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 The Indian policy of the present
 administration has been in the mai1
 successful The absence of general
 frontier wars is testimony which can-
 not be otherwise interpreted. .Most
 of the tribes recognize the power, and
 put faith in the promise of the gov
 ernment, now. that the frauds o1
 agents have been stopped, and the
 laws are vigorously enforced in favor of the red man, as well as against him.
 But it must not be forgotten that the Indian question is made up of a good many questions, and each ot
 these, of good many Indians. The state of things in Arizona must be judged according to the actual cir cumstances there, not the failure or success of certain measures elsewhere.
 The first feature of 1t that deserves attention Is the fact that there are many different tribes in that Territory. We find, for instance, the Pimas, Mari copas Papagos, Mojaves, Yumas, Utes, Moquis and Navajoes-all friendly to the whites, and many of them living upon reservations. The Pimas and Papagos are hereditary foes of the Apaches, to whom they are more ter rible than our soldiers. Their frequent expedition into the Apache country, in middle and eastern Arizona, possess, however, little military importance, since they are accustomed on obtain ing victory-though it comprise but a single scalp-to go home and cele- brate 1t.
 The Apaches consist of many in dependent, scattered bands, having little in common but their hostility and cruelty. They have been the inn memorial foes of the Mexicans; but up to 1859, they lived at peace with the American settlers, whose small numbers led them to court the good will of the savages, while their poverty offered no inducement of pIunder. The causes of the rupture which took place in 1859 are not cred itable to our pioneers; but 1t IS prob able that the predatory Indian bands would not much longer have dis tinguished between American and Mexican victims, even if they had not been excited to revenge by outrageous acts of robbery and murder. It is of no use to recount these; the guilty parties are mostly slain; certainly they are not the sufferers of the present warfare.
 The Apaches proper include the Pi- Tontos and Coyoteros. Besides these, the renegade Mojaves and the Yavapais have voluntarily as- stunned the prefix Apache, as badge of hostility, and because they have found that the name strikes terror into the hearts of the settlers. All these divisions however, must be con- sidered as subdivided again into mere parties or gangs. Cachise, of whom so much has recently been said, is not the chief of the Apaches"; but merely of notorious band of the Pi- It is doubtful whether he would keep such promise if he made 1t most doubtful, whether his band would obey his authority if he them to desist from plunder; and quite certain, that the other Finals, and all the rest of the Apaches hordes, would pay no atten- .ion to him at all.
 The white population of Arizona consists of the army; the contractors, etc., who live by the army; he desperadoes and outlaws who have ;ound refuge in this wild Territory, lfter even the tolerably lawless life of 'ther Western regions became too orderly for them; and the adventurous loneers, Mexican and American, who !,