Arizona citizen., 1874-10-17
TO MY
Mexican Fellow Citizens.

A s A CANDIDATE FOR DELEGATE A to Congress at the ensuing November election, I appeal to you for support. l have attempted a revolution with eternal truth and justice as my standard; and ask your votes to sustain me in the demand that the Central Government give us home self-government and protection by cauSing to be built a TranS-COntinental Railway through our Territory that would save millions to the United States Govern ment.
 We as citizens of @ Territory only have the shadow of power and all have the in herent right, as loyal citizens, to equal power with any citizens of the Republic. Ton recollect how your people were mur- dered and robbed in California until their political power was felt, and know the progress and protection they have receiv- ed under the State Government that grants them that power. One of your cit iZens has been taken from a justices court and publicly murdered by the Pima Ind ians, and no one attempted to be punish ed for the offense. Some of your citizens are maligned for rising in your own de- fense at the Camp Grant massacre, al- though acquitted by a jury of your cOun- trymen; and the Major who was in com mand at Tucson and should have defend- ed you so as ter have prevented the neces- sity of your action instead of spending his time in drunkenness, having under gone a farce of trial, has been ordered back to this Territory to load the army with his presence, unless our Department Commander may have prevented his re- turn.
 If am elected, shall urge that the Ind ians be placed under the general laws of | the Government and have all the inner ent rights of men; that when they as in- diViGualS or communities show their abfl- ity to execute civil law, they must be free and exercise the responsibilities of free dom, and when unable to execute civil law, they are disloyal and like all disloy
 <l police who shall see that thelaw is exe- cuted, and the generosities of the Govern ment should be placed in the hands of our most devoted Christian Missionaries for their education.
 You will be appealed to by interested parties to cast your vote as you may have promised. The power to vote given to you by the people, carries with it the highest moral obligation that you cast it at every election for the best man that you believe on the day of election you can elect, and to use your utmost endeavOrs to have such a man elected, and no former promise can relieve you from this obligation any more than any promise to rob your fellow-citi- ZenS of any right ObligeS you to do so. At times of great necessity for reform, and great principles are at stake, involving as such principles do, the life or death or well-being of millions of men, your re- fusal to support the most important and useful measures by your vote, is one of the blackest of crimes.
 Many of you have known me for sixteen years and have never deceived you A native and educated in New England, l know the strength and weakness of the moral sentiment of the East, that has so mis-judged and controlled us, and with more than a quarter of a century of inti- mate acquaintance with the people from the Missouri River to the Gulf of Califor- nia, have had opportunities, under the most favorable circumstances, of ObServa- ton 10 know their necessities and cOndi- tion; and should our people sustain me in the principles l advocate, by my election, shall devote all nay power to succeed in the wider field of combining the intelII- gence and power of the Territories for de- manding home selfgovernment, and that of Texas and New Mexico in demanding that perfect protection that the Govern- ment can only secure by causing Trans Continental Railroad to be built through their borders, and shall have no doubt of my success and that the generous and in- Quiring American people will grant our just demands, which would produce an era of the highest prosperity, progress and development in our Territory. The duties Of officers of the Government, Priests or Citizens, are the same, and can only urge that you see that no illegal votes are cast at the ensuing election, and in your vote you do your duty to yourselves and the people of Arizona.
 CHARLES TRUMBULL HAYDEN.
 October l5, 1874. 2-1w