The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-06-21
A Peace" Talk.

The Arizona Sentinel of the 24th inst. comes to us in towering rage at the Fed eral Administration and its Indian peace commissioners The murder of It. Amy. by Indians whom Crook has never had < chance to conquer, and with whom peace commissioners" made "treaty," has induc- ed the Sentinel, at this late date, to flourish its little tomahawk and strike out wildly for scaps,-aye, even the scalps of such papers as have merely hoped that Crook had con. quered the Apaches. Among such sinners is the MINER reckoned. But, as the Sentinel, in another articl~, pats the MIsER on the back for having recently said something that met its approval, We can't believe it has any idea of scalping Us. Still more, it has taken up our cry for giving the management of h. dian affairs to the military, so that its over heated expressions do not scare us worth cent,-especally as we believe them to have emanated from a certain slippery individual who hob-nobbed with the notorious Lieut. Whitman and his co-thieves; tried to con yict all who were accused of killing few red mGrderers and thieves at Grant, and last, yilesi, basest of all, endeavored to get the Legislature 10 pass resolutions of censure against Gen. Crook, for bis action at Camp Date Creek, in endeayoripg to arrest the red murderers of Loring and others.
 We are really glad to see paper that has been, is yet, controlled by such man and his packers, learn courage from the MINER, adopt It's line of argument, yea, its very phrases, and endeavor 10 awe the powers that be into change of front on the Indian ques- tion. But, as new converts are far more fiery and Zealous in their advocacy of a course than old-lin war horses, we would ad- wise the Sentinel people 10 go slow until they learn something about the nature of an Apache and The plans and power which Crook has to make them keep the peace and live up to the obligations into which they have entered.
 As to "peacc," we never have had a more peaceful year than the one just past, and, as Crook has made it so, so will he continue to preserve peace, in futare, even with the small force now at his disposal.
 Once more, the President has lately acted right well by Crook and us, and it is now out of order to abuse him. We pitched into him when we had good cause for doing SD, and at time when no other Territorial pa- per felt like taking a similar course. In tact, we cannot now say aught against President Grant upon this score, as 10 him are the peo- pie of this Territory indebted for deliverence from the saHages ana the nenliish peace com missioners who would have ruled here to-day, had President Grant not turned upon them the cold shoulder.
 ! The Sentinel falls into another error in as- serting that Crook, himself, was deceived when treating with the Apaches and pro- claiming peace.
 | Not bit of it, as you will learn by read 1 ing the orders and instructions promulgated by him. He did not expect that every In. dian in the Territory would suddenly turn saint. He expected that occasional crimes would be committed, and made all possible provision for preventing them. And, had he sole control of the reservations, Almy would not have been murdered. Of course, he needs more soldiers to control the reservation Indians and to whip tue mountain fellows That he will very soon get them, we firmly believe. In fact, it is now ruInored tba another regiment of cavalry will soon be sent to the Territory, in which case we hope {, hear that the Sentinel people, who sleeI soundly in secure homes, far away from th, trails of the Apaches, will cease to dream o damage from Apaches.