Arizona weekly miner., 1874-02-20
From Thursiay's Dsilyl |" TRUTH IS MIGHTY AND WILL.
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 When the white people of the frontier from the Mississippi to the Rio Grande, pro- claimed with one accord, that the so-called treaties and dealings of the so-called Chris tian peace commissioner with the wild, reck- less and bloodthirsty red inhabitants of the border, would not be lasting, they were cried down by said peace commissioners, their press and followers, as lawless cut.throats, who sought war with the Indians for the sake of scalps, punder and the pickings of Army con tracts, and, as said commissioners happened to be representative men of the eastern churches, rings and cliques, they had every advantage of the far-off irontiersmen, who, living thousands of miles from the seat of Government of the country and its densely populated States, carried on an unequal con troycrsy with the ring-masters and money getting gluttons who, by tongue and pen, poisoned the mind of the governing class of our country on this Indian question.
 When Col Baker, in retaliation for brutal murder of helpless, innocent white men, wo- men and children, chastised the bloody Pie gans, he was painted as a vicious monster, that
 1 "To be hated need but ,o be seen."
 By men of the Wcsh-BTunot- Colyer stripe who were interested in keeping the wounds of frontier people open. The same cry was raised against Custar, Sheridan, Crook, Chiv- ington. and all other regular and volunteer officers who, in pursuance of their plain duty, braved dangers and hardships without stint in order to chastise the demon foes of their
 country and people. These officers and their
 followers were denounced as blood-thlrsty h.
 dian exterminators, when it was and IS well
 known that neither honor, fame nor wealth, to very great extent, has ever been won in
 Indian wars, and that those officers who have
 made for themselves little fame, in this way, have never yet been anxious to fight
 our savage foes; but, when ordered to do so,
 they have simply obeyed orders. Crook did
 not wish to come to Arizona, and only did so when ordered by the commander-in-chief of the Armies of the United States-General
 Grant.
 In like manner, citizens who have emigrat- ed from the old States and settled in the will : derness, face to face with the scowling red , man, did SO in obedience to that memorable, unwrit,en law. which impels the Anglo-Sax- on to scatter out and i'll the waste places of
 the earth. No luxurics; no soft couches !;
 10 fine Brussels carpets, and no succulent stomachio did they find spread out ready I for use in the Great West, which, to use a i forcible American expression, has we'll nigh
 been pioneered by hard knocks" But, say s the carpet-knigh,s and enfeebled male blondes n of Puritanism, Q1akerism and all other isms, - "Why enchroach upon the poor Indian f
 The answer to this impertinent question is ] already given, but we deign one or two = more: the American Government, which lays e claim to slI the great west, has organized il P into States and Territories and invited it:
 citizens to "go West" They have come ,. West, and are determined to stay, and they want all eastern demogogues 10 understand
 that, inasmuch as the first settlers Of the east fought their way, successfully, against z Indians, they, too, intend to make the west
 their own or perish in the attempt. Thou
 sands of them have already perished, but, N
 the "blood of the martyr is the seed of th,
 church." the blood of the western pioneer'
 shed by Indians is the seed of this grea
 North American Nation, whose bounds, "Nt
 pent-up Utica" thieving churchmen or clan q nish Indians shall contract.
 Sufficient room is there, in the west s for whites and Indians, and, but for the inter s ference of licensed robbers like Howard, Vii n kinson and others we might name, both race - could and would now be living in harmony s To prove this We need but point out the peace !, and good will that prevails between white if and Indians, in all places where the latte q have been forced (not cajoled) to respect th' !, rights of their white brothers.
 Il, The commissioners made treaties with th' n Sioux, the Cheyennes, Arapahoes, kiowas IT Comanches and other Indians, which treaiie d said commissioners assured the country woult e be sacrcedly kept. They have been saoredl, ,r kept by the whites but not by the Indians
 who, for months past, have committed mur
 der, and robbery after robbery, from the Mi. f souri to the Rio Grsnde, and are still openly |. dciiantiy, wssiag horrid wa- upon America
 citizens.
 , In our Territory, where commissioner ' with much blasphemy, aver that they mad treaties with Indians, by Gods help, th
 very Indians thus treated with are they wh have lately broken Gods laws and the , treaty stipulations while Indians with whoI
 Gen Crook has treated. by force, have r,
 mained true to their promises and are, to-da!
 volunteering to put down the rebellion Is bands of CacAiSe, Eskiminzin, Del-Che an ar Shcerum.
 W The rebclhOus Indians were bribed, b l. presents and promises, into making shor
 lived peace, while the true Indians were, b
 war on the part of Crook and his troop s- forced to lay down their arms and beg f' CT peace.