Arizona citizen., 1874-10-10

shows that he thoroughly understands
 our condition and necessities; and with
 righteous cause and one department of
 the government to intelligently sustain us. why cannot we succeed before an hon.
 est and inquiring people? In the Winter
 of 1872, the Peace Commissioners invited
 the friends of the Indian race to Wash
 ington to devise means for their improve
 ment, and having heard all that was said,
 square headed Doctor of Divinity rose
 and simply remarked at the close of the
 discussion, "That the people had heard
 great deal about what the Peace Con-
 mission had not done, and it seemed to
 him that some means should be provided
 to ascertain whas they had done." Time
 reechoes the question, what has the Peace
 Commission done? The day has passed
 when the American people can sit with in-
 difference and see the Agents of the Gov
 ernment in a General Howard playing
 puppet with the policy of Cachise; a
 San Carlos Indian Agent drawing to his
 bosom as ward of Government the mur-
 derer EskiminZiD; or little doctors assum-
 ing the wardship of reasoning men. 1
 would give the exercise of arbitrary pow
 CT to the arm of the Government that was
 created for that purpose, and is restrained
 in its exercise by system of courts that
 should hold each individual responsible
 to all its members for the character of his
 official acts, and is entirely subject to the
 civil power, erecting the inalienable
 rights of man as the guide board that
 shall limit it5 exercise of power; while
 the generosities of the Government for
 educational purposes for the Indians, 1
 would place in the hands of those who
 have acquired power oyerreaching all
 despotisms by the simple exercise of
 Christian persuasion.
 Is the question of a few millions of dol lars spent in building railroads and tele- graphs of any importance, compared to
 the benefit they would confer, in the knowledge they would disseminate, to enable the selection and detention of such officers in the field of active service as are suitable to command How impor-
 tant to the service during the aaministra- tion of Major General Mcdowell in Ari- zona, might have been historical tele- grams like the following: Citizens are continually being robbed and murdered
 by the Indians, and no punishment is ad- min16tered, but soldiers employed OF the Mcdowell farm, the General thinks will save thousands of dollars to Government.
 D. Tappin has been wandering on the plain within fifty miles of Tucson for four days wounded and dying of thirst, and has not been rescued because the district headquarters at Tucson could not furnish a packing equipment for the soldiers to keep up a continual prosecution of the search, although such an equipment for army operations against the Indians would be the only means of making the army effective Three months has expired since Cachse stole all the cavalry horses and cattle, about two hundred head, at Camp Wallen, and he has been quietly feasting upon them within days march of Camp Bowie without being disturbed. Without having any desire to inquire into the merit or demerits of the case of the removal of Chief Justice Titus, 1 wish to point to the terrible feeling it has aroused, in order to show you one of the evils of the fearful despotism under which we are governed (far more remOrseless than It would be under a uniform despote sys- tenn of government, where the head could be made to feel his responsibility. Any civil officer throughout the TerritO- ries is liable to instantaneous removal from his position on an earnest and eXpar- te statement of few respectable men, without any means of his being able to meet the charges that may be made against him, and so difficult is it for the Central to obtain correct and certain in regard to the action of any of its Territorial officials, that when a strong combination, whether right or wrong, makes persistent attack upon any officer, usually the wisest measure that the Central Government can pursue, is to remove the officer, being certain that in the new appointment they do not select a person in the interest of the at tacking party. What field is there here for reforming officer, who is certain of the most violent attacks, and how terri ble has been the feeling aroused in all our Territories from such removals, causing the people to waste their energies in at tacking one another instead of uniting their efforts for their own advancement, Governor Gilpin backed by the frontiers men of Colorado, combining the powers of statesman and general, with aknowl- edge and experience that enabled him to grasp the whole subject in the early sta ges of the rebellion, stood alone among hIs cOuntrymen. master of his situation. On the credit of the Central Government, sustained by his will, the frontiersmen of Colorado equipped and sent forward the army that overwhelmed and disbanded the eXultant and victorious rebels that with an energy unequalled in the annals of warfare, had possessed half of the con- tinent. Thus did he destroy the impor tant designs of the Confederates who eX- pected to gain a European recognition from the eclat arising from the vastness of their movements in conquering provin ces, without arousing the spirit of resist hat hn ofr hp nf