Arizona citizen., 1877-03-24

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 Icompanies of Indian scouts he should
 lallow so insignificant a number to raid at will over a large portion of ArlzOna. |, I arrived at the numbers by three of the renegade chiefs going to Sonora
 under the lead of white man named ISreeter, to make peace in that state
 General Mariscal reported to me that tSreeter stated the number of the band Ito be POS, and this statement I believe Ito be correct.
 | General KautZ says that 1 know that
 lall these Indians are reservation h.
 dians having at one time or other been
 on a reservation. IL is highly proba-
 ble that at some time all of these In
 dians have been on reservation, but
 when Indians leave q reservation and
 go to war, they are no longer reserva- ition Indians, and General Kautz is placed here to go after and punish such Indians, which he has failed to
 do. And l will say further, as I have
 stated on a former occasion, that have no doubt that in the recent raid the 1 IChiricahua band were reinforced by
 Indians from the Warm Springs reser-
 walton, and 1 believe said reservation
 has been made a harbor for bad In Idians for some lime past; and further
 believe that the agent in charge of
 said reservation is entirely unfit to control it, and should al once be re moved. But while l say this it does
 not in the least relieve the department lcOmmander from the responsibility for
 the loss of life and property in the Ter lrItory during the past eIght months, for he had an abundance of soldierSI and Indians scouts, and could have easily followed the depredators, and if they went to the Warm Springs he. could have fastened the guilt upon them. But instead of this no effort has been made to follow them, and when the people in their misery, havel cried out for help, they have been in, suited, and charged with lying and only wanting more troops to makeI money out of; and when l have ap-I pealed for protection for the people, l have been charged with a desire toI protract our Indian difficulties. Should 1 feel compelled, before retiring from office. to ask for the removal of the. Warm Springs Indian agent, Gin New Mexico il remains 10 be seen whether. or not General Kautz will join me or will be as 10th to have him removed as he was Jeflords.
 General Kautz says that, "he (the| Governor seems to be entirely uncon- scious that it is the brave and efficient officers that he is scoring" and that if. I chose I could throw the entire blame if there IS any on them. Now if General Kautz desires 10 plead the ba-I by act and acknowledge that there is no head to military affairs in thls Ter rltorv. then l will accept the apology and no longer hold him responsible for the mal-adininls;ration of military affairs.
 The General has undertaken to ap- peal 10 sectional pfejudices with view no doubt of securing some friends and supporters in one section of the country. and in this he has been as un- fortunate as in the balance of his let ter. In the first place I will state that no man is fit to be Governor or depart mcnt commander who endeavors to array one section in hostility 10 the other. IL is true there has been, and undoubtedly Is still, some local feeling growing out of the location of the cap-I ital. In this contest l have taken no part When the bill came to me for the removal of the capital, 1 signed il ls l had always agreed to obey the. will of the people as expressed through : the Legislature upon this subject,
 So far as the removal of the head quarters Is concerned, ] believe il 10 have originated in the fertile mind of the general, for 1 have nev- 5r heard it mentioned elsewhere, and t is clearly an invention to stimu- { late sectional feeling and thereby cover his own short comings. Such spe ,ious pleading has no effect upon the l good people of the North who have suC- i rered in times gone by, as the people. pf the South are now suffering The people of Arizona may dispute and get angry over local matters, but when the. lives and property of any section are I they forget these local diff [ 'erenccS and unite as one man against | inc common enemy, and such is the action and feeling of the decent people , throughout the Territory at thIs time. (
 I should have been glad to have |, been spared tliS contest, l hoped { months ago that I could tide over the !; brief remaining period 1 am to serve f - ~ .,-,..,,-. md 1o.v-.s os a 1auacv fms |,