The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-05-04
Attention, Government.
The Daily Nt.es, of Denver, Colorado, says in recent issue:

Inc Daity 4sfas, oi Den'et, So'oisoo, S@3s in a recent issue: Apaches are again rampant in Arizona, and | telegrams bring information of fresh atrocities. We saw Washington dispatch the other day | which said that these Indians were giving | the government some "uneasiness, and the ! matter had been talked over in the cabinet. 1 It is & pity that the Indians could not make peace commissioners as uneasy as they do the citizens of Arizona.
 \ great pity but Indian agents are not forced to live here and take the same chances citizens have to take, in order to make liv- ing and guard their property and household gods. \ years residence here would take all the philanthropy" out of the Colyer', Tatums, and Lymans of the East.
 The Press, Christian journal of Colorado Territory, whose editor deplores our suffer ings, hopes that the recent action of the Cal ifornia Legislature will have due weight with the authorities at Washington, and result in great benefit to the people of Arizona, who, we assure him, earnestly hope so, too.
 The Scientific Press, ofSan Francisco, whose
 
 matters have been conducted here, as well as of the crushing out of legitimate mining and other business, by tue two-faced policy of the Administration, has this to say:
 The people on this coast have been natur- ally indignant at the manner in which the Government has acted with regard to Indian affairs in Arizona, and desire that some defin | ha fut fn sata fOr la lives and property of individuals in that Ter ritory as we'll as in other parts of the United States When General Crook went there he immediately started upon plan which his Indian fighting experience suggested and one which was kindred to the feelings of the peo- pie he was protecting. His plans have been frustrated, however, by the policy of the Government in sending more "Peace Con- missoners to do the business in some way, so that some official may make little mOn"y out of the matter. These proceedings are ob- noxious to the people of this Coast and we arc glad to see that the Legislature of California has taken the matter in hand, passed . series of resolutions and sent them to the President. ls
 If proper cognizance is taken of the resolu- tions by the authorities at Washington we may at last hope the Indians will be made to sue for peace and that they will receive wholesome lesson from the hands of General Crook, that they will be likely to remember. Business of all kinds has been retarded long enough by the Apaches. and it is high time that the whites had their turn in dictating terms of peace.
 The WaIla Walla Union, the leading Repub- llican paper of Washington Territory, hits al most every nail in the Indian Department on the head in the following free, easy and truth full article: '.. sss
 The policy that seems to be pressed and almost forced or the Government towards hostile Indians, is certainly the most exPen- ,'t sive as we'll as the most cruel, both to the whites and Indians, that could be imagined. Strange to say that after an experience of al- most a quarter of century with the Indians of the Pacific coast, which has resulted most unsatisfactorily, there still seems a disposition , on the part of the Government to pursue the , peace policy, so called, which has resulted in more bloodshed ot innocent whites and retribution on the head of the Indians, than any thing else could produce. The pol } icy has been to hire the Indians, rather than compel them, to make peace. The Indians comprehend the situation, and very well un- derstand that before they can expect pay for making peace, they must first make war. They also know that the more times they make war, the more times they will be paid for making peace. Then, looking at in pure ly business light, the Government holds out what the Indians consider an inducemcnt for them to rob and murder our people. Exper- fence has taught them that after every bloody series of raids made on the dcfenseless traveller, miner and settler, in addition to the booty they carry off, they will be well paid by Gov ernInent presents handed out by such spoon ley agents and commissioners as Vincent Col yer, who, in order to protect the sayages from the punishment they so much merit, do not hesitate to stoop to the greatest falsehood in representing the whites as the aggressors and the Indians as the injured parties. Thus far, this class of Government officers and agents have been more the allies of the Indians than of the settlers This class of officers have done more harm to the people, have caused more bloodshed, and have prolonged wars and strengthened the hands of the Indians more than all others combined. They induce the Indians to go to war by promises of presents to make peace. Nor are they satisfied with this. When the Government sends officers and troops into the field in order to chastise the Indians, there is ever ready class who hold peace commissions or agents appoint ments, or, again, perhaps are in the employ of the Indian Department as contractors, who, in order to make money, do all in their pow CT to thwart the aims of these soldiers io their attempts to give the Indians the pun. ishment they so richly merit. As proofs of this, we have only to cast our eyes in the di- rection of Arizona-the field where Vincent Colyer 50 lately rendered himselfinfamous by his lying reports and interpretations con corning the people and Indians of that Terri tory. See the trouble that that most success full and persistent Indian fighter, General Crook, has been put to by such as Colyer, both in Arizona and elsewhere. His oppon- epts that have given him the most trouble are not the Indians, but are another class, that to all intents and purposes are equally enemies to the whites,-we refer to that army of men and officials who, either by appointments or contracts, live and make money from their connection with the Indian service. This class know that if the Indians are extermin-