Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-04-28
THEN AND NOW.

-Agawam that name sound fsmilia
 let us see, ah! now We have it. But # 3 a long time since we have seen tls . name, a long time since we first read th history "Kiag Philips war" and uhe We saw the name, as the residence , . some of our Eastern tourist friends ii yesterday's CITIZEN, 1t struck us as a f.. . away sound, aud at once carried us bac
 to boyhood days, when to read "Kin
 Philips Wa" and the Life of Captail
 Church vas a very impo taut thing il
 the history Of every well regulate,
 family. There was no need of Beadle'
 dime novels ID those days; the "frozel
 truth, as told by the native Nev ! England historian was sufficiently blood
 curdIIng to satisfy the cravings of tn,
 widest boy
 In the umbered country about Mar
 raeauset' bay, the whites had an squa
 show with the Indians in everything
 , hey could hide in the dense forest. if
 they wanted to, or could track up the
 inuocent followers Of King Philip and
 shoot them down by wholesale.
 But then We should reme nb.t that hllg Philip and Agawam were bad h. dians. and that the whites wao lived in
 Rhode Island and Massachusetts. were
 good people, whose lives were constant
 ly being endangered by those red hand
 ed savages who; with tomahawk :n hand
 were liable to split open The heads of
 those good people at any time. So the
 good people commissioned Ca!tain
 Church to look after the bad Indians.
 while the puritan fathers plowed the
 ground and planted the corn and beans.
 and stored their larders with the good things to be had thereabouts. to carry them through ull the growing of anoth- er crop; for, be it known. the New Eng lander was always thrifty going fel- low always looking ahead. Captain Church Was an able Indian warrior, and, like Geueral Crook did not hesitate to use friendly Indian scouts to assist him iu trailing up bad Indians. It was a ftvorite custom with the Captain 10 he in ambush and shoot the savages when they least expected 1t. and on sev- eral occasions whole bands of Indians were ezterminated at night. when they were Auddled around their camp fires rr-5h-ireveuing meal,or wrapped
 l Heir covering Of skins, dreaming of the fit deer skipping over the hills ready to be slaughtered, or of a glorious war dance, over the scalps of white men, women and children, taken in for uer couque-ts. Captain Church made short work of these treacherous fends of rhe scalplng knife and tomahawk, and their unmarked graves long since were los. and forgotten.
 Little d-d We think when a boy. pour irg over the history of the early Indian WITS in New England that We would 1 ever lay eyes upon a real wild Indian, ] oe,erthele-s i, is fact, we have seen a 1 req. wild Apache. But how things have ] changed since Captain Church's day. Then the whites were good and the Iu- ! diaHs were bad: now the Indians are good and the whites are bad, at least l the white people uf tlis far-ofT country | are bad. Some of us have grown up on | the outskirts of civilization, some are from Boston. some from Rhode Leland . and other New England States, and | some from almost every other State in This union. vet We are bad. very bad. ] We have blood in our eyes and you cant trust us ss far ss you can sling cod fish by the tail But the Apache . Indian, oh. here is where you fi1d your . true nobility, your very beauiieal of "tLe . noble rcd manr Juh and Geronimo are not so tall and shapely as was King Phil ! lp,Auawan or Agavam. .but for real nice, l cunning. cute trick the Apache discounts ! those ancient red men of the east. h. ! stead of lowering around a camp fire, 1 and taking the part of a menial, he | builds no camp fires, but wraps himself . uu m a good warm government blanket ! furnished by the great father at Wash lu-t5n, and as twilight dawns he rises from hls virt1ous oouch and draws near ! to the ranch house of some b d whitAA man whose wife and li,tie gIrl, SO full !. of life and hop, are busy preparing | the morning meal. but in less time than l it takes Co tell the story the entire fam i fly of bad people are shot down and | -calped, when the good Indian fnls a | warm brs aktast awaiting him with plenty | pf good horses in the corral for him Co . select from, after he has finished his | meal, upon which he can mount and | make bis escape before any one, save l himself, knows what has happened. l These noble red men" have murdered | thousands Of white u.en, women and l children, m MeNco, Arizona and New l l Aien. d1rug the past twenty years; 1 nor, perhaps than wee killed by ln- | iiaus in dl the N-w England wars put ! together, and if let alone and properly 1 led and protected by the Government ] few years longer. it is believed that they !. xll kiu of gil the bad whites, and once ! more have fulI possession of the land of ] the cactus aud ,ahuar1, when ther will l be able to tske care Of themselves with out any further aid or assistance from !. tbe Goverumeut or the humanItariaus of the East.