The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-09-20
lcsnlianaa from fr,s paa,.l

i,s sofa republic supporting military aris- tocracies--an industrious people pensioning communism and hzinesA; and Christian, chivalrous people sDleaiing polygSny, female slavery, aad the vilest abuse ot wOo'enI
 The results arc what we see beibre us- The miserable Indians themselvea are rapidly sinking under their uncontrolled vices and are fast psrishing by drunkenness, disease, and mutual wars But they are not yet SO far reduceSiss ss to be unable to perceive that,
 in some way, the more civilized race Is their enemy. Captain Jacks father and his war riors fell by White treschery in peace talk. There have not been wantingrf htte savsges capabIe of rubbing the IndisW of their poor rags, and fIrs, and blankets, and even of their souls, by bartering to them the fire liquor. Maddened into a wild -beastJike fury, they are almost yearly breaking out on the war path, and slanghtering all whom they meet, devastating she frontier settlements, and as in the melancholy case before us, with the | cunning of tho; serpent smtiug the bravsst | and the best oh our people. lt is time that | this terrible process of plundering and slaugh- ,tering should cease. It is disgrsceful to | American republicsnism that 1t should have | continued so long The American people sre sow aroused to an intelligent consideration | of our Indian policy, and will command the abandonment si thoso erroneous principles l which have too long guided our relations with that people, and return to that first ! principle of republican government the equality of alh men before the law.
 In applying the principles of republican | government, then. to the Indians, let our | Government, in. tho first instance, break up | the tribal and, communicate system of gov | ernmeat. Coagness has the right Co secure | to all the peoyls of the States and Territo- | s nf nh the Indian tribal system is not. It is the very worst form of uistocr:icy. At any cost and expense it mast be broken up, and the Indian people, and women, and children re- leased from the despotism of their chiefs. Let the supremacy of law take tue place of Indian customs, and let every Indian know that if he torsalsaEks bis squaw he will be hanged as surely IS a White man. Let the authority of the Government be extended over every Indian in the United States; and let every man in arms against the United States be dealt with as a traitor and a mur- derer. Let this miserable farce of recogniz- ing the InNisps' right to rebellion and mur
 der cease, a nd Let us tolerate no private war, permit no unlawful combinations of Indians to wage war against the United States, or to give aid and comfort to their enemies. Let every India hs completely disarmed and compelled Co keep the peace, and let the whole power of the Government be directed to breaking up the entire tribal and savage system, and o raising the Indians to tho lev el of citizens.
 The very if rst agency to be used with evil doers who ref ise submission to the laws is force! IL is q ,c only argurneut which selfish natures can be made to understand Gods own way of ealing with sinners to bring them to repent ancs is by sending affiiction. "whom the I ord loveth He chasteneth.' Il And Gods let itenaat, the President, is to proceed with ey il doers in the same way. Ar ter sufficient D reclamation of the law, and offers of pardon upon snbmission, he is to proceed to enfort obedience with the instru- ment wbich God puts into his hand. And this instrument is not in the first place, [ blanket, nor Bil' le, nor pipe of peace, noI pension Cor good behayior. It is the sword the instrument of death. God gives him this tremendous Veapc D, not for An ornament O state, but for actua l use, and commands hin not bear the sword in vain, but to become Gods revenger, to execute wrath upon hin that doeth evil, so effectually that he shall be terror to thee vil-doers. Revenge against murderers and oppi .essors Is part ot the no ble, unselfsh chars cter of God, implanted 1T man created in His own image, and indispen sible to the safety of society. Its exerSis' against vil-doers delegated to Gods rep resentatiye. 1t is m instinct of human na ture as irrepressible as hunger, and one which deprived of it's div iDely instituted weapon the sword Of the ller-will arm itself ~i,s the knife of the a sassin, or the clubs anS fire-brands of the mob, to execute wrath up on the murderer. The penalty Of death mus be executed upon Al men--Indians as we'll a Whites-who will not cease from rspine ant murder. '"
 It may be said that there are some tribe so savage that th' y will perish rather thar submit to be gov, sraed by tho laws of th, United States. ] f that be the case then VI must submit to t he inevitable judgment O God, that every iation and people which vii not submit toJus laws must perish
 It is sad, that any individual, much mor any tribe of men should perish. But if tn condition of thei rexistence be lie of dange to their peaceabi neighbors and of misery [ themselves and heir children, thsn it is bel ter they should perish than continue to exis and hinder othe better men from existinI For the destruc' jon of such evil-doers tho Sl preme Governor puts the sword--the weapo of dcath-into the hand of the ruler, con msnding him n .t to use it in vain, nor mistaken leniss scy encourage those guilty wrong. -n-f
 But should he ruler continue to neget his duty, God Himself will take order thI sin shall surel, be punished, and especial those crimes ,hich assail life, and propert and the familt 7. There is no law of heaye moro absolute than that whi oh decrees Il extefminstioI of tribes which persist in sa age habits and vices All history, fro Canaan to u ie Islands of Polynesia, is or great procif .mstioa of the pnrpose of tt Great Ruler of the world to destroy ever nation whic b, ,toleTates impurity and Jmurde and to ext ,rfmnate such nsti ons from tl face of the earth. By the various agenci' .af the unjr st wars which they provoke, an which briI lg them into slAvvry 10 Less depra ed nation |, and by the far more terrible sla' cry of tho ir own vices, such races become DO soned in their vitality, and--as we see in u case of any once powerful tribes on our ow contineI a, whose immense pueblos, temple and ext ensiye mines and earth-works yet a
 tonsh the antiqusrian--vanish from the iau