The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-06-01
The Dark and Bloody Ground
[Frnm fhe sacramcntc. Cal. RecpraI

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 Again the cry of innocent blood comes up from Arizona, and the country is shocked by the recital of fresh list of Apache murders. There is a horrible sameness and monotony brings US new instances of the fatal folly of the present Government policy. The intiu- ence of the humanitarians, Tn bringing out a cessation of military movements has had the effect we anticipated from the first The Indians regard the change as indicative ot timidity on the part of the Government, and they grow daily more daring in their attacks upon the settlers. The last number of the Arizona MINER contains intelligence of four fresh murders, with the usual accompaniment of mutilation and robbery. The MINER fur ther says: "The country adjoining Prescott on every side is alive with Indians. They know that the military are under orders not to arrest or pursue them, and knowing this, reason that the Government is afraid of them"
 In the fare of these facts the peace policy is maintained, though its maintenance in- wolves the withdrawal of Government pro- tection from the settlers and their exposure to the most frightful perils. The attempt to collect the Apaches upon reservations will, we predict, prove lamentable failure. They can only be brought to live peaceably by | being made to see that an iron hand is upon them, and that their ferocious predatory pro- pensities can only be indulged at the price of their lives. They may consent to go upon the reservations, and very likely will, if by so doing they can secure Government rations. But while taking these gifts they will be still engaged in raids and murders as they have done in the past, and their segre- gation will only enable them to attack the settlers with more perfect impunity. The fatuity of the Government in it's dealings with these savages IS most deplorabe. They have sienalized their constitutional treachery and unreliability in a thousand ways. They have never yet kept treaty, however sol emnly made. They have lied and cheated and murdered and plundered, on every pos si5le occasion. They have in no single in- stance given the slightest evidence of a dis position to abandon their traditional usages. | They have again and again intimated their intention to hold the Territory against all corners as long as they can. Though cunning enough to assume an attitude of humility when confronted by an armed force, they never spared the solitary prospector or trav- eler, or made one raid the less upon stock or trains or stages or settlements, for all the empty talk and the windy promises made by them at the various councils held with our army officers or Government agents. It is not only follyto daily longer with this ques- tion, 1t IS in the extreme of cruelty and in- justice to the white men and women of Ari- zona, who are daily being sacrificed to the shameful weakness of the Government. The situation in Arizona is burning disgrace to the Administration, and if something is not done to relieve the people of this Territory
 it will injure General Grants prospects on this coast seriously. We are all weary of evasions and gatherings with the savages, who are being more demoralized every day by the inexplicable hesitation of the authorities. Let troops proceed, under General Crook. to whip them into submission, or let the mill tary posts be abolished, the soldiers with drawn, and the Territory surrendered to the Apaches and the coyotes.