The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-10-19
MORE CRUEL WORK BY THE
 DEVILISH APACHE8.

tfreighted with accounts of murders and rob-
 beEies by the cut-throat, savage Apaches. A
 sergeant and three privates of Captain W. H.
 Browns company, of the Fifth Cavalry, and
 citizen, of Mexican extraction, have been
 shot down by the skulking murderes; ami
 mals have been stolen, a military commander,
 with weak force, has been overawcd by .
 large force, and what few citizens have been
 spared their lives by the miscreants,
 have fled to Tucson, leaving the
 hard earnings of years to be used or des-
 troyed by the red vandals. Yet comes there
 Ring, howls loud and long to stay all prac-
 tical efforts for the suppression of the diaboli
 cal warfare and the pacitication of the Indian country. And the howlers in question take pains to proclaim themselves Christians, hu- manitarians, and advocates of fair play for all men.
 Great God! why dost Thou permit such false hearted, rascally demagogues to curse the earth2 And why is it that the sancti- moniOus scOundrels do not come out here, go alone among the Apaches and preach to them the Gospel of Peace. An! the why is, the sleek dogs are too cowardly to do so, and those of them who make an easy, comforta- ble living by manipulating Indian fluids and supplies, are working, slyly, for the long con- tinuance of the era of blood and robbery that has desolated this Territory. It is but a few weeks since the gallant Lieutenant Stew art and several of his men were murdered by these same .Apaches, and yet, shame, shame, upon our Government, General Howard, its Commissioner, is fooling away his time and the money of white taxpayers, in hunting up the head chief of the demons-the willy, murderous Cachise-who has boasted of his savage deeds in slaughtering Americans and Mexicans; who has spurned all offers of peace and insulted our Government and its agents
 Was ever such tritiing before employed by any Government? And why employ it with implacable savages at time when sterner measures are being used to reconstruct so- called rebel citizens of the Southern States
 W right in this Indian matter, and. in the name of God and our suffering people, we ask its cordial support for General Crook and his gallant little force of troops, who are eager to encounter dangers and hardships innumer- able to bring the war to close.
 We ask the Administration and the coun- try to consider our case: We are here, try ing to open and develop this Territory we do not wish to modest or disturb the Apaches if they will but let us alone, and ws say now, for our people-civil and miitary-that, although the past ten years have witnessed Fthe -shushter-by Apaches-of fully 1000 white men, women and children, we are more anxious for peace and a chanceto forgive the Apaches than are those psuedo Indian lovers who lift up their eyes to heaven in prayers for the heather, while with their hands they rob him of all that generous Government and people subscribe for him.
 And, we refer the country to the Press and people of the entire Pacific Coast for proof of the justness of our cause, the purity of our motives, and the heartrendings to which we have been and are yet subjected, by the say ages and their white allies. Indeed, the Press of the Pacific Coast, with one excep- tion-the Union, of Sacramento, California-I is in sympathy with us, and it is but short time since the Legislature of California .memorialized Congress to strengthen Crooks hands and let him try war upon the savages, to see if it would not have better effect upon them than the ancient candy policy. And, now a word with the Sacramento Union, and we will have done It, in times past, has thirsted for the blood of hostile Indians in Oregon, Washington Territory and Nevada, and called their slayers and con- querers brave, noble names; but, we of Ari- zona are denounced by it as semi-civilized savages, who, in the interest of contractors and others, want to prolong the war, and put the Government to more expense The Un- ion knows better than this. The Union | knows that the |" Peace" policy is the dear est policy for Government and people, and the Onion lies when it says it is not. The Union knows that were the Indians to remain | upon reservations, contractors and others | would make more money by furnishing Indi- an supplies than they can possibly make out of the few soldiers now in the country, who | would still have to remain here and guard l the Indians uponlreservations, but the mana ger of the Union Is a cheating gambler its chief editor is drunkard, who is charged with having recently got blind drunk in Mexican bagnio, from which be emerged to the street, innocent of clothing, to shock the modesty of all who saw him Tn 50 beastly situation. And these are the allies of the Indian Ring thieves; the white washers of Apache butchers, and the ma ligners of white frontier men and women,
 Poor Mexico is still undergoing torture at the hands of her children. Rebels are in arms in Sinaloa and other States of the so- called Republic. Maxltlan has fallen into