Arizona citizen., 1875-09-11
Troops on Our Southern Border.

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 Troops on Our Southern Border.
 In times of internal peace, the army should be so distributed as to prevent Ilawlessness on our frontiers bordering on foreign nations, and to punish men attempting to embrOil the people near them and hence nations in war On iron tiers like our Canada and British Co., lumbia ones, where very little appre- hension of difficulty is felt, but few troops are needed, and yet in several instances within few years, the pres ence of United States troops in north ern New York and Minnesota has been deemed necessary. And in both cases American citizens were not particular ly or generally periled, according to the popular understanding at the times referred to. For many years, it was deemed necessary that both the United States and Great Britian should main tain joint and armed possession of San Juan Island in the northern part of Pu- get Sound, and it was maintained until the questions involved were decided in favor of the United States by the Elm peror of Germany in pursuance of a provision of the Treaty of Washing ! ton.
 The people of this nation and those of | Mexico, are well aware that a state of terrible laWlessness, involving murder in all its forms and theft wholesale and retail, has been going on for many years all along our southern border from the CIlf of Mexico to the Pacific Leon, a-.d also 1lat this condition is, to say the feast, growing no better; and InoW the indications are that much worse condition will soon prevail The outrage upon Leopoldo Carrillo, the de- tails of which we gave last week in English and to-day in Spanish, is evi- dence of the fearful purposes of the Mexican authorities with regard to cit izens of the United States. The officer in command of the districts of Altar and Magdalena, demonstrated his readiness ! to murder one of our citizens without trial, and did-under threats of instant death, without the appearance of trial on any sort of charges-rob him of over $20,000; and the Governor of the State of Sonora, issued an order for his murder with the same lack of lawful forms, decency or humanity. As we view 1t, our government must call Mex ico to a strict and expensive account for this ineXcuSable outrage by its high officials. Then the very fact of its per petratlOn, exhibits in the Strong gest and cleareSt light the unfriendIy character of at least the local officials towards our people. They encourage their own citizens, by subsequent protection, to come into Arizona and rob and mur- der our people, and they also receive and protect our thieving and murder ous citizens who flee there from justice here.
 Sooner or later, this state of affairs must and will produce international conflicts, If our government do not es- tablish and garrison a few military posts as nearly as practicable on the national boundary. The Indians with slight exceptions are at peace, and there are many posts from one hundred to three hundred miles of the Mexican line, which would be much more use ful if placed as nearly as practicable toI it. It is folly to say that such steps would endanger the peace between the two nations or produce a more un- friendly feeling than now exists, and we believe nothing would produce al more peaceful and hence beneficial in nuence upon that nation and people, l than an unmistakable determination onI our part to either prevent further outra- ges as before stated, or hold the govern ment of Mexico responsible and i'm pose the dearest of all penalties upon 1 it-that of war In the most cOwardlv way, that government is now making war upon our citizens-fOr it will no longer do for their officials to plead that they have not the power to restrain and punish their bad people, since these same officials have shown them selves to be as bad as their worst citi- Zens. Both officials and citizens have proven themselves robbers and murder CTS of our people, and therefore further excuses are out of order, and ought not to be listened to by our government Military posts should be at once estab- lished and manned on our southern frontier, and the officers commanding properly instructed. In this way peace may be brought out of the present dis order without war on large scale be- tween the two nations, but we believe in no other.