Weekly Phoenix herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory [Ariz.]) 1882-1896, 1883-01-26
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! introduced by Mr.. Moye Wicks.
of Piml County.
To the Senate and House Of Rep
| personalities of the United States of
America in Congress assembled:
Your Mrmorialists, the Twelfth
Legislative Assembly of the Terri
tory Of Arlz ma, beg leave to accept
sent to your honorable bodies: From
time immemprial the Apache In
dians, an aboriginal tribe, inhabit
ing the country between the Rio
Grande ard the Gulf of Californa,
have been a Gu sc to civilization and
plague spot on the continent.
Since thu fist Efforts of the Span
iards to coioniZe and to christianiZe
this country, more Than three centur-
les ago, these savages have retarded
progress and paralyzed prosperity IN
a portion of the grandest ard richest
part Of the 6 obe.
After the Mexican revolution the
Apaches impinged upon the weak
and struggling government to the
ext. Mt of devastating and compara-
lively depopul ting the Northwest
provinces.
Since the acquisition of this conn
try by the United Sta the depreda-
tions of these Beiouins of America
have been continued with undimin-
ished fury. For these Indians have
been segregated vast reservations
unwieldy in size and altogether I'M
adapted to the purposes had in view
by the government By such segre-
cations princely extents of rich
mineral, agricultural ard grazing
lands have been withdrawn from de-
velopment, aud millions of acres OF
productive country rendered of no
use, save to serve as the lurking
places of an impl 4cable foe. The
| cringins solicitude with which the
demands of the semi belligerent, aud
belligerent Indians have been COM
piled with, and the manner with
which they have been supplied with
neccssaries, and even luxuries of life,
has not inspired the Indians with
gratitude but has given them a con-
tempt fo- our government and has
imbued them with the idea that their
Great Fati.er at Washington is only
the timorous keeper of great free
hotel, where they are entertained
gratuitously through fear of their
anger. They call the Reservation
Agents "squaws," aid despise our
| people with more than Monaghan
insolence of race prejudice. To their
brutaliztd minds kindness appears
| to be confession of weakness, and
forbcaranre seems evidence of fear.
They have so often set at defiance
the attempts of our soldlery to dis
| lodge them from their mountain fast
nesses that they believe themselves
well able to coI-e with American
| troops whenever a favorable time
may arrive. Not only are they ignor-
ant as to our national strength, but
statements of our number as a people
are derided by them as forked-
| tongued," to use for once part of
| thefigurative twaddle with which the
novelists have so completely d, ceived
the American public as to the real
characteristics of these beastly mon-
sters. The nature of the Apache
cannot be comprehended by knowl-
edge, however intimate, of the habits
of other Indian. They are the most
treacherous and cruel creatures that
that disgrace the earth. Murder is
with them, trade: torture, fine
art; outrage, uiilation and bur- ing
at the stake delight. His career of
bloodshed has been the same for
ages. The killing of some of the
braves in the wars, last cad of intimi-
dating the remainder, has only fired
anew their unforgiving hearts. They
implicitly believe that some day they
crush out American civilization. even
as tradition tells them, their ances-
tiers o5literatted the civilization of
that extinct race, whose ruined cities
in every part of the Territority de-
light the antiquity and puzzle the
historian Their presence i'll Arizona
is continual menace to our welfare.
The pres nee here of the efficient
Indian fighter, Gen. George Crook,
does not remove our appreheasions.
The people know, by woeful and re-
peated experiences, that no outbreak,
however vigorously resisted. can be
put down without delay and great
loss of lilies and property on the part
of the government of the United
States, and, still worse, on the part of
non-combatant citizens. These par
| tic,Ilar difficulties are more the fault
of our government at Washington
than the fault of the soldiers, for the
special obstacles arise as much from
| the mountainous nature of the coun-
tries in which the Indians are al
lowed to remain, as from the nature
of The savages. The Apache is no
contemplate foe. In point of in
tcllect, in cunning and duplicity, in
warlile skill and untiring energy,
in tenaciiy of purpose ard W onderful
powers of endurance, the Al ache has
no equals among the war like tribes
of North America. His daily thought
aud his nightly dream is destruction
His traditional hatred toward all the
oeocae,,I ard Industrious tribes is ir