The Clifton clarion., 1886-09-22

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 ness the cruel death of his parents.
 Many months have been added to the past since that fearful car nival of blood caused to be writ ten another chapter in the history of Indian atrocities. Great GodI where slept thy thunders when the deed was done? Did He even look on and would not take their part ? By order of the Secretary of war, in whose veins flows the bluest l blood of the old Bay State and whose ancestors embarked from the Mayfiower on Plymouth Rock, Chatto and his fellow murders were ordered returned to Arizona, doubtless to live life of incidence on a reservation, in conscious SC curity, to renew and resume at pleasure that feast of blood at which they have so long fattened, and satiated their capacities for in discriminate rapine, robbery and rayishment.
 General Miles, learning unoffi- clally, that they were en route for this Territory assumed the respon- slbility, and ordered them detained at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and notified the War Department of his actions. The Secretary of War, imbued with that sickly sen- timentality conceived by James Fennimore Cooper for "Lo the poor Indian" long years ago, and beau tifully portrayed in his novel "The last of the Mohicans," ordered the Indians to be returned to Arizona The General was asked to give his reasons for his action and "in thoughts that breathe and words that burn," he tells the Secretary, why he did not desire the re- turn of the savages to Arizona. Many unmarked mounds, on smil- ing mesas and rugged mount ain tops, attest the loss which we have sustained and the sacrifice made in behalf of mlsdirected philan- throphy.
 Graham was the first county in the Territory to feel the weight of the heavy hand which struck the blow from which we are now re- covering, thanks to Gen. Miles. Pima and Cochise, to say nothing of New Mexico and our Sister Re public on the south, are, like Ra- chel mourning for her children and refusing to be comforted be- cause they are not. The reply of General Miles to Secretary Endi- colt touches a tender chord in many sorrowing hearts, here and elsewhere, now rejoicing with much gratitude that the day of de- llverance has already dawned and that the east bushes with the ros- cate hues of a promising future. Honor to the gallant General who has redeemed Arlzona from the thralldom of Apache terrorism.
 The reply of General Miles to the Secretary reads as follows:
 You ask me why I desire the removal of the ApacEes from thls territory. I will tell you in as few words as I can why I seek to have them removed. I ask it in the name of the Territory of Arizona whose prospects have been blasted and retarded by the fendish cruel ties of these Indians; I ask 1t i'll the name of twenty five years of ceaseless warfare and numbering on the part of those tribes; I ask it in the name and in behalf of the widows and fatherless children, whose lives have been wrecked and whose future has been dark ened by the numbering raids of these fiends; I ask it in the name of five hundred mounds, under which sleep and repose those lives offered up as sacrifice, the brave and industrious prospectors of this territory who sleep on every hill side of this fair land, and mark with unerring finger the barbarous cruelties of those Apaches, and last, I ask in the name of ciyiliza- tion, whose purpose is the eleva- tion of mankind and the dissemin- atlon of divine truths. Divert the the spring or the fountains head from its course and the rivulets will become dry. Remove this poisonous upas from our midst, and the flowers will bloom and grow, and the sunshine of happi- ness and prosperity will come to the brave and deserving people of this territory"