Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-04-26
BLAINE AND sHIPHsRD.

Mr.. Blaine has certainly damaged snip
herd severely, and to great extent vindi-
Gated himself, by his testimony before the
committee. OF course it must not be for
gotten has at bottom there is an insolube
question Of veracity between the two men.
They slone can know what each said to
the other, and if they make conflicting rep.
reservations as to what this was, no out.
slider can decide between them, save on
general principles. 1t has. however, been
demonstrated by Shepherds own evidence
that he is person of extremely fervid i'm
agnation. Blaine seems to have con-
cluded that the protector and agent of the
Peruvian Company is mad, but we see no
ground for such an opinion. Shipherd is
evidently man of the Colonel Sellers
type, who has become SO accustomed to in
trigue and misrepresentation that he hardly
retains capacity to distinguish between
truth and falsehood. 1t is evident, not
from Mr.. Blaine's statement, but from
documentary proof, that he has been lying
to large number of people about his
Peruvian scheme, and that he has
above all tried to ''play off" one
man against another las politicians
have sometimes been suspected of
doing, and has also sought to disable his
opponents by detraction (which is an
other political method). The only circum-
stance which gives any color to the notion
that he may be insane, is the fact that the
Cochet claim, upon which he founded his
colossal enterprise, does not appear to have
possessed the slightest value. All his
representations concerning it seem to have
been erroneous, and this Hurlbut pointed
out very clearly in dispatch which was
published shortly before his death. 1t was
a thorough wildcat scheme, and but for
the free employment of the names of prom
inent men in connection with it, there does
not appear to be much probability that it
ever would have got before the State De-
partment. Of course the death of General
Hurlbut has made it difficult to elucidate
the entire case. He could have thrown light
upon much which is yet obscure. Bat the
circumstances are such as to give Blaine
every advantage in the investigation, and
it is certain already that he will come out
of it with flying colors, and in fact stronger
than before.
TEE ARIZONA IaDIAn OUTBREAK.
The situation in Arizona is very serious.
The Apaches and Chicaruhuas, and perhaps
other Indians, have gone on the war path,
and as usual have taken everybody by
surprise, and perpetrated number OF
murders before any organized effort at
resistance could be made. As usual also
the troops available for pursuit are too few
and too scattered to promise speedy results,
while the settlers and prospectors and
miners are generally so far apart that it is
impossible to protect them. Governor
Tritle appears to have acted with energy
in this crisis, and has called a meeting to
organize the means of offensive warfare.
The notorious insuficiency of the Federal
troops has seemed to warrant the enlist
ment of a regiment of volunteers,
and the atrocities committed by
the Indians have led to talk about
"total determination, and taking no
"prisoners. If this applied only to war.
riors it would perhaps not call for remark,
| but it includes women and children. Now,
| while it is impossible to read of the cruel
ties practiced by the Indians upon white
women and children without indignation
and horror, it is necessary to remind the
people OF Arizona that it is incumbent
On them to show that civilization does
make difference in them. II they are
civilized, nothing can justify them in copy
ing Indian barbarities. If they are civil.
lied, the murder of Indian women and
children must disgrace and entail lasting
shame and infamy upon them. Under the
circumstances no one will blame them for
killing hostile bucks wherever they find
them, but they must draw the line at the
male Indians or they will commit terrible
blunder.