National Republican., 1883-07-11
Ex-Gov. M'CooK on TIE APAcuEs.
His Views Vigorously Expressed in n
Letter 10 Secretary Weller.

His Views Vigorously Expressed in u
Letter 10 Secretary Teller.
Ex-Gov. Il. NJ. McCook has addressed the
following letter TO tho secretary of the in
terror:
=, LONG BEACH, L. L. July q 1883. M Dear Ar.
SecretdrU-l am glad to see the stand you have
taken relative TO the final disposition of the
Apaches, and hope you will DO sustained by the
President. indian human nature is like any
other Kind of human nature and it seems to me
that II these savage criminals are permitted
to 20 back to the reservation UNPUBLISHED
It will II ustrate to all their other fellow savages
that robbery, murder, and every outrage known
To human depravity is condoned by the american
government, because the Indians surrendered
after they no longer had chance to succeed in a
ngnt It isa rather rough way to put the proposi.
uOn, but do not think the safety OF any one in.
dividual should mperil the lives aud future pros
perliy OF all the people in Southern Arizona and
New Mexico.
The general public don't seem to know that
these Apaches have within the last two years
committed more than 1000 murders, ravishing
the women Draining babes, dismemberng roast
ing, impaling and haying alive the men, ana in
ilicting on their victims every torture fendish
ingenuity could devise, some Of them too foul and
horrlDle 10 mention even i'll Il letter TO govern
ment Official. Many of these savages have already
been captured and released two or three times
ana tnen ied at public expense until, becoming
tired OF their monotonous life at the agency, they
started again to seek variety and recreation in
another numbering raid
Can you or any other person give good reason
Indians should be clothed and protected by the
government, while all white or negro people of
the criminal classes are hunted to the death
hope the fruit Of Gen. Crooks magnificent
campaign will not be thrown away; aud ii our
government has no disposition TO deal with In
ulan assassins as they have done with white ones,
these outlaws may be turned over to Mexico
where they will probably meet the death they de-
serve.
/ can't see any good reason why these fellows
should be placed on reservation and fed for any
Longer time than will suffice for trial and execu-
tried to teach, and while governor of Colorado
endeavored to enforce obedience to law as you
ma 1t on the statute book, but if the brutes
again turned loose upon the people of Arizona
ana New Mexico think the citizens of those two
territories would lie entirely justified in exercs-
ing their manly duty to protect their wives, chill
uren, ana property, and insisting asserting the
natural right every man possesses to eXterminate
an evil which threatens his life.
For twenty years have advocated the idea that
indian criminals should be punished like white
ones, and that the proper fate Of men like Red
cloud, S Mana Juh, and LOGO would be a swing
from the Yallows, instead of shaking hands with
the President, holding solemn cauncils with the
secretaries of war and the Interior being fsted and
ieasted by men and women in the eust who forget
for new sensation.
If these people could only realize half the hor-
rors the Indian devils have perpetrated. 1 am sure
That the weak and suicidal policy of forgiveness
and condemnation. which so often has failed, would
no no longer nave an advocate even among the most
people OF the government and the east.
Counting by years, this dreary tragedy has ex-
tended over more than quarter of q century;
cost thousands of lives and millions of dollars /
Is 1t not time the play was played out? Or, ut
least, the programme changed enough to miuge
little justice In the paris of the actors, with the
great amount of inconsequential humanity al.
ready inflicted upon the public, and laughed at
by the Indians as the policy which always Yields
them without much danger their annual crop of
scalps. Very truly your friend,
EDWARD NJ. MCCooK.
Hon. HENRY NJ; TELLER, secretary of the interior,
WASHINGTON, d. C.