The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-03-16
VINCENT GOLFERS REPORT.


 yer's report of his doings in New Mexico and Arizona, among the Apaches. We have care fully peruscd the interesting pamphlet, which contains fifty-eight closely printed pages, with a view to find therein, if possible, any plausible excuse for the action of Colyer or his packers, in regard to the Apaches, but have failed entirely.
 The report commences with statement that for the last fifteen years the Apaches have desired peace; quotes statements Of M. Steck, former Indian Agent, in New Mexico, while, e,Arizona was included in that Territory ; of one Lyman, who says he was trapper on the Gila in lS4O-4I, and of Col. John Green, Lieutenant Royal E. Whitman and sundry other officers and citizens who have at a later period been placed by official position, or connection with military posts, in contact with the Apaches, to show that then and now they were and are a race of peaccable, tractable men, desiring to be at peace with the Whites, willing to engage in agricultural pursuits, anxious and ready to act as laborers in bringing forage and fuel for small pay to the posts, eager to make treaties and profuse in promises that when made they should not be broken Colyer himself testified in his letter to Washington, that they were, so far as his observation extended, especially will ing to receive the presents he distributed among them, and writing from Camp Grant, September 18th, in reference to a distribution made of clothing, at Camp Apache, to 362 Indians, says: When all had received their presents, and were departing for their villages, happier, more grateful and decently behav- ed set of poor people have never secn." The tenor of the whole report is in that line, and what might be expected from man who came here with belief founded on such bases, desirous for the attainment of certain ends 10 prove that the Apaches are long suffering, down-trodden, abused, unappreciat- ed people, who only need to be fed and clothed for few years to prove to the world that they are innocent, harmless. and we'll disposed. He states, on page Is: "I have visited seven-eighths of all the Indians under our flag, including Alaska, and have not seen more intelligent, cheerful and grateful tribe of Indians than the rowing Apaches of Arizona and New Mexico"
 Thirty pages of Colyer's report are mainly filled with his own letters to Washington, detailing his great success in his mission of peace among the Apaches, the horrible man. ner in which they were treated by the set tiers, and their earnest desire for peace. Twenty pages more are filled with afIidavits and letters from military officers, post trad CTS, post guides, and government contractors, of nature calculated to support his own testimony.
 In his seventh and eighth letters V. c. re- ters to the abuse heaped upon him by the newspapers of this Territory and New Mexi- co, in terms of lofty contempt. So far as the MINER sees it after reading his report, we did "nothing extenuate nor set down aught in malice,' and do not now go back on one word which we have previously said in these columns.
 The trouble is, that Vincent is not in any sense of the word humanitarian or phlan- thropist. He did not come here to live among the Indians, to civilizc or enlighten them by course of pastoral agriculture, or religious instruction, not at all; but he did come as the agent of a ring that desired to thwart, for their own unholy ends, the efforts of General Crook and General Granger to permanently settle the Apache question, and to a most undesirable extent the object has been accomplished.
 Colver gives page after page of matter showing how outrageously settlers have treated the Indians; how their children taken in fights have been carried captive into Sonora. Not line refers to the treacherous murders, the stealing and holding captive White and Mexican children by Indians, that have prompted reprisals ofthe nature he des- cribes. Full ofcompassion for the suffering of the redskins lie has uttered no word of sympathy for the men of his own race, and refused to hear testimony in their behalf. And only in orc place does he admit that it is possible the settlers in Arizona desire peace as we'll as the Indians, though we know that such testimony was urged upon him, that ev- idence for desire for peace on the part of the Whites met him at almost every station on his journey.
 Some of the letters to Colyer from military officers, which he published in his report, seem to have been written under an impress sion that he was invested with all the power of the U. s. Government, and therefore the writers truckled to him that "thrift might follow fawning." and wrote only that which they knew he wished to have written: they have their reward in seeing their abject, cringing emanations in print, and in knowing that the press of the Indian country, from New Mexico to British Columbia, almost without exception, condemns them with their chief, Colyer.
 He closes his report by saying that his mis- s;op xr,s successful received the approbation