Arizona weekly miner., 1874-01-16
From Thursdays Daily.l Wilkinson Again.

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 Feeling that the article in yesterdays MIS. rR did not do full "justice" to Captain Will. kinson and his barciaced assertions about frontier people and Indians, we will now en. deavor to reiutc the many false points made in bis recent address to Chicago audience.
 In the first place, his assertions that "while in Arizona, the chief of leading tribe of Indians rushed up to himself and Gen Howard, cxclaiming, "A few years--a few years; then nothing,'" may be correct, as all sensible Indians have well understood, {, that the object of Howard and Wilkinson in visiting them and the Territory was to steal what httle they had, or what Government might thereafter appropriate for them. But, It is not true that Gen. Thomas ever made u treaty with the tribe of which this Indian was leader, or with any other tribe in this Territory, as Gen. Thomas never was in Arl- zona. Equally false is the assertion of this selfstyled Christian soldier" that said tribe had been swindled out of large amounts oi inoney-annuities which Government had entrusted to agents--for said Indians, since 1t is a matter of history that government never has agreed to pay any money to any tribe in Arizona.
 Again, we have it from the "Captain,' that once upon a time an Indian agent tried to poison an Indian by giving him strychnine {; but, fortunately, or unfortunately, the dose was too great, and merely made the Indian sick. He (the lndian) then applied to tie agent for some medicine, and was shot by the agent. Were this tue case, we should not hesitate to declare the agent, in this case, a l.if. ,f lsl veteran bureaucrat, swinder and murderer. But, as no such event ever happened here, we have no recourse left but to denounce the author of this wholesale falsehood as a liar of the first magnitude.
 Once, indeed, near old Camp Reno the mo- torious Del-Che, born Apache liar, thief and murderer, did provoke a contract sur geon into firing pistol ball at him, which We are grieyed to have to state, did neither wound nor kill the red fiend, who SO richly deserved killing.
 While travelling in company with some h. dians (and large escort of soldiers), which latter tact the "Captain" forgot to recte to his Chicago admirers, he withdrew his mind from prayer and Indians long enough to learn that the corn which the mules were eating, was about one-half gravel. This he coniured up to strengthen the belief prevalent among Indian Ring dupes at the East, that con tractors in this Territory have swindled the government in this way, but, unfortunately for Wilkinson and his gang, this same corn, if 1t was "gravelied," came from Camp Grant where Lieutenant Whitman, hireling of the Indian Ring, had charge of every thing, and, no doubt, stretched" bis corn as he did the number of Indians fed by him, in order to turn an honest penny"
 Now, We have never met this man Wilkin- son, but can prove that while he was in Ar- zona, as sort of spy and follower-in- prayer of the miserable Howard, he expressed hlm- self wonderfully well pleased with the feel ing of citizens towards good Indians, and chimed in with the general desire of citizens and majority of the military, to give Gen Crook full rein in running down and whip ping bad Indians. What, then, are We to think of his words and course, since going East Clearly, not well, as they stultity his former assertions and stamp him as a hypo- critical time-seryer of a corrupt ring
 His assertions as to the good, gentle quali- ties of the murderous Modocs are even worse than those concerning the Apaches, and should bring from the Press and people of the West, who know something of the bloody NSSN' VI NhcoC Sa'aStct NOTus OI everlasting damnation upon the titled scoundrel, who, while pretending to serve the white people of this country, from whom he draws pay, insults the memory of the brave soldiers and citizens whose blood the accursed Modocs shed in the lava beds. Clearly, the Indian Ring are again endesvoring to lead the pub lie astray on the Indian question, and by so doing make it the duty of the Press and people of the frontiers to defend themselves from being again set upon by tbis accursed anaconda, whose rapaciousness never can be satisfied. Proiessed friends of the Indian, they are his most heartless enemies; and, since, by prayer and putting on of sacred vestments, they out-Jesuit the Jesuits, there is no telling what they may accomplish, if the people of this country permit them to attain the power they aim at. Frontier peo- pie must never forget that "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" from Indian Peace Commissioners like the public robbers--How ard, Colyer, Wilkinson & Co.,, men who, while the war was going on, had their agents in every military camp to coax and bully ignorant Negro soldiers out of about two thirds of their monthly pay, for which a piece of paper, with the signature of some irresponsible person, was given them.
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