The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-08-17
THE ARIZONA SAVAepo
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the Apache Chiefs-ifthey may bs.. - e such-around the country at the ca.ss expense, introducing them to the pssrt pee.srt and with the high officials Esten;,. 's.'dsss professions of peaceful desires and ;s. nee their fellow Indians in Arizona ,,a eaneak engaged in their long time and iasn.:s ses patton of theft, pllaSe and murder N.
 mail reaches Us that does not con,.:~s counts of these outrages War w;,s s body Is their normal condition n
 not desile peace. Feed them as ths. & never feas,ed before, clothe them and W them in every respect as friends. ana a will profess satisfaction and conte,, . ,ag rect from the banquet you have sprssa Ias ASs at them, in the very clothes with wh;.s 0s have clad them, the echoes of the;r !@ sions of peace and friendship still f,rrS r'e the air, turn your face'away, and already ,s they be anticipating theft, ambuseaS. .s massacre of the very race whose kinslv ,sa I mistaken trust has believed their Twin. ". '" fessiuns. w
 It is not intended to blame the amh,;,. :, Gen. Howard, or of the Government ;,1'. attempts to paeify Arizona by peace.,.n smoking the calumet, wampum, and all ,sr other cant expressions usually used to a.,,-s the Red man by making him think hims.ls. superior being, and the favor conferred | n his. if he ceases to slaughter our people so, little while until he gets rested from bs l,.. raid But it is intended to say that tho aos cy will not win; that while the chiel. !. called, may make any amount of promise .s peace, and profess a desire to live on ,o,s terms with the whites, they do not mean i, they have no moral sense that tells them Z any obligation to speak the truth, and th,;, history, through all the years of which v., know anything concerning them, is one If falsehood, treachery and murder.
 It is not merely their raids and thefts nh berries and massacres since Arizona becsme 1, portion of our possessions. Their ances,on drove out or destroyed the Aztecs, who form. erly occupied much of the country, and psye it no inconsiderable claim to be deemed e,- ilized, people who built cities, cultivated the soil, and erected houses and temples. the relics of some of which even now are of such proportion as to excite the wonder of civil ized men. The Apache raids in tue north ern States of Mexico, for theft and murder. have been frequent and atrocious, and tue Mexican people and Government have been for centuries almost powerless to prevent them. With such people the ordinary means of paciiication seems futile.
 Our philanthropists and Christian people have talked of civi,iZing them, of inducing them to make treaties and abide by the terms of the same. But how is this to be done with a barbarous people who have no general recognized Government, no leader or captain capable of controlling them as a nation or tribe Should General Howard be able tc convince those with him Tn Washington that they had better cease their barbasous habits, it may be questioned whether their influence, limited at the best, would not be entirely de- stroycd with their people who would be more likely to kill them as apostates than follow their advice for peaceful courses. In ths meanwhile, our own citizens are being rcb- bed and butchered almost with impanty General Crook, who, if left to follow hts own ideas, would ere this have threshed them into submission, or destroyed them, is hampeNd, and his policy held in cheek by visionary en- thusiasts.
 And what is to be the next ssove2 Probabls these wretches, after having been feted and indulged with big talks, will be sent back e Arizona with somenew edition of Vincent Colyer, who will insult every white maa in ths Territory by word and act, and report to Tas Government that the Apache IS Pacifed and the country at peace. While pennlng a' despatches, the Apache will be busy dispatch ing the white settler and running on hH stock. We know these Apaches. We ha'' seen them, been among them. watcheds and followed and robbed by thcmy and do not es lieve that any persuasion, except that oi so solute force, will exercise the least restran' upon them. Our GoVernment and 7eopa have had already good many years of e1 perience with them, aud the only real pro gress vet made toward their pacihcation sa been when some of them have been put De yond the power of theft and assassination
 It is not because of enmity to the nati. races of thIs country that VIC write thus is because we love our own race and are unse' to see any gool in the Indians of whom VI write, any apology for their continued eeo's' of barbarity, any hope of their lmproVeh'en. any wisdom in the course Of Governmen toward them, any reason why great, he' and costly Territory should be allowed '' remain worse than desolation, a land 2 terror and of blood, barring out the adven'u' ous of our own people, while the Pi'Hes worthless, lazy Apache is indulged in hs Ps time of rapine and desolation. One inors, rs trious, intelligent. civilized white mans ia' h'' is in our estimation of more value 10 tn' world than all the miserable, murderine, n reclaimable Apaches that ever cursed '"'' miserably abused country.