Arizona citizen., 1873-12-20
THE HYPOCRITE's PROGRESS.
The SaintlY Towards Fraud and Disgrace, and Incidental Remarks.

another hypocritical professor of religion is exposed to public scorn, and the ranks of the truly pious relieved of terrible disgrace, in the person of Brigadier-Gen- eral o. o. Howard, the man who has per mitted honest and unsuspecting people to give him the deceptive title of 'Chris- tian soldier" It is not very creditable to the churches that they will stand by a hypocrite after reasonable exposition of him, and it will surely be sad disgrace ehould they longer try to bolster up one so completely exposed as Howard. His persistence in appealing to God and offer ing up prayers and making pious talks in season and out of season alike, and at times when he was bolstering up such exposed creatures as It. Whitman and returning partially civilized children from homes they loved to barbarous ones, in the face of the most energetic and honest protests against the proceeding, combin- ed to convince nearly every man in this part of Arizona that he was without a true Christian heart, without genuine Christian impulses, and without any en- nobling Christian purpose either in or out of his Arizona work. His public pro- fessions of support of Gen. Crook and his private intrigues to supersede or be- little him in authority, and gather around and under himself set of men whose were popularly as low as they
 buld well be, were not calculated to in- fire the frontiersman with awe for the kind of piety he possessed. Then his Treatment of Gov. Stafford, when it was supposed the guide ''Manuer' was killed, was that of unadulterated baseness. His publication all over the country, in the Summer of 1872, that he had made peace in Arizona" was 6 cheeky false hood to say the least of 1t. November 49, 1873, and at divers other times before, TIE CITIZEN reviewed the character of the Generals Cachise business and his whining because the people failed to act the hypocrite and laud him for his bad work, to the end that eastern people might the more easily be deceived by his own reports. When he was, several months ago, charged with fraud and he asked an investigation by court-martial and was offered it, and then peremptorily refused to submit to it on the ground, we believe, that the statute of limitations protected him, another proot of his base hypocrisy appeared to the whole nation. For time, little was heard of his case, except the New York Worlds vigorous exposition of his operations as Commis- sioner of the Freedman's Bureau and President of the Howard university, un- ie Rpesday of this week, TIE CITIZEN
 ||ftd the following dispatch which .sS'cs a6tn in type and posted about town: si NVAsflINGToN, December l3.-Gen. w. W. lBeIknap, Secretary of War, has been i311etfy But thoroughly Investigating the accounts of the Apache peace commits sioner, Gen. O. o. Howard. The result is an arraignment wherein Howard IS pre- scented for fraud and malfeasance in Office The papers are submitted to Congress to-
 
 ards papers are found to be in endless confusion. He will be prosecuted civilly and criminally and by cOurt-martial.
 Readers, even pious readers, don't that read. strangely in connection with man who has permitted himself to be general ly published as 1.-the Christian soldier" who always claimed to have regulated his life and business by "divine assistance;" who claimed to have "the love of the Lord Jesus Christ" in his heart and made 5ersistent efforts to get the ga n e ssrticle into the hearts of others; and who Bays he often wept because of persecution Hn consequence of his pure Christian con- 4uct? What is the world coming to When the statesman" Wm. NJ. Tweed, is fined 2,500 and imprisoned twelve 1ears, and the "Christian soldier" How nrd, is to be tried "civilly, criminally and tiy court-martial ?" If an opinion be in 55rder, we would give # that probably the New York statesman" and his friends 2Woald now advise against his kind of rntatesmanship, and the military "Chris- tian" and his packers would oppose the fpractice of his kind of Christianity, and heven in preference recommend the kind of rough but honest pietY practiced on the frontier-even at places remote from