Arizona citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Pima County, A.T. [i.e. Ariz.]) 1870-1880, 1876-07-29
determination or Indians
Demanded.

New YORK, July 7.-Nearly all the
Journals have long editorials on the
Custer affair The Herald says: Never
since the time of the Rebellion, has
there been such warlike sentiment
abroad among the people as that which
yesterday found expression on all SIDES
regarding the bloody battle of the
Little Horn river. On one proposition
all seemed agreed, 10 wit: That the
policy of the Government should be
made one of deadly aggression, looking
to the total determination of the treach-
erous Indians"
The question of whose OK is gOred,
makes a great difference with people
whether OF not the gOring should be
avenged OF continued. When near.
! ly every mail and personal arrival from
the outlying settlements IN Arizona
brought news of men OF women, OF
children, and sometimes of all together,
being causelessly murdered, and we
were demanding just war enough on
the savages to make them properly be.
have themselves, the organs of public
opinion in the old States and the av.
erage sentiment of public bodies, were
in defense of the murderers and severe
in denouncing their victims dead and
alive. While We deeply regret the
killing and numbering of men any.
where, yet the lessons thereby taught
being severe, ought to be valuable and
not overlooked in silence; and we may
remark that while killing is incidental
to open war and hence to be expected,
it is not any reasonable part of agricul.
ture, stock-growing, mining, carrying
mails, etc. The present calls for EXTERN
ination have no excuse compared with
those by people at peace who daily suf.
| fer by the thefts, fortunes and murders
of Indians. Let few pertinent facts
be brought to mind.
| November 5, 1871, Frederick W.
LOring and six other men were muir
dered by Apaches, about nine miles
west of Wickenburg, while riding in
the stage towards California Mr.. LOr-
ing was the son of u very prominent
resident of Boston, and because of his
murder mot of the other five whose
lives were aqually dear to them and
their friends and perhaps rs valuable to
the country many peace-at-any price
men and journals began to talk of the
necessity of active war against the
Apaches and limited at their extermi-
nation.
August 81, 1872, Lieut. Reid I. Stew
art, 9TH Cavalry. and Corporal Black
were aSsassinated by the Apaches in
DavidsOn's Canyon between Tucson and
Camp Crittenden. Lieut. Stewart be,
lOnged to an influential family of peace
full people in Erie, Pennsylvania, and
because of his death mot that of Cor
poral Black.) the peace-On-earth and
gOOd-will-to-men journals and people
of the old States, talked more positively
for war and little more plainly favor
i ed determination.
Early in April, 1873, Gen. Candy and
Rev. Mr.. Thomas were brutality killed
BY the MOdOcs, while engaged in a
peaceful negotiation to maintain peace
full relations with them, and Mr. Meach
am was terribly wounded. Because
these Justly distinguished and prom
inent men were SO treacherOusly
slaughtered, mot because many peace.
full settlers in the same nelghbOrhood
had been as unjustly butchered0 the
demand for ruthless war on the MOdocs
and their complete determination, be.
came common all over the land.
About the first of this month and
while engaged in the line of their duty
as soldiers, Gen. Custer, fourteen com.
mlssiOned officers and nearly 800 men,
were killed in battle with the Sioux
Indians. Because of this unfortunate
and deplorable defeat in battle in
which distinguished officers lost their
lives, mot because hundreds of miners
and other peaceful pioneers had been
shot like wild beasts in the same sec
ton of country The Herald says
what we quote above, which is that a
decided sentiment prevails among the
good people eastward in favor of ex-
termination of the Sioux.
1t would be well for the people gen.
orally to give the foregoing historical
facts some reflection. They show a
peculiarly of cause and effect in hu-
man affairs not altogether creditable
to intelligent people loudly protesting
to be just.
A Los ANGELES. dispatch of the 18th
SAYS; Colonel Crawford has received
I disnatches from Salt Lake to the effect