Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1886-01-06
THE OFFICIAL APOLOGY.

The governor IS justly alarmed at the
 round of indignant attack made upon
 has misrepresentaiions of this people and has iIied to meet cur assertion that he had no ground for his intimation that the people of the territory were threatening to raid the Indian reservation. Night before last be took an article to our democratic contemporary which was intended io show ihe evidences that the people sae reallycontemplating an attack on the Indians.
 He quotes from three CT four papers thai have published intemperate articles since the beginning of the Indian raid. These articles talk bloodily and are to be dep'ored for the use that vii be made of -ihem by doctrinaFiaus and mistaken philan;hTopisis in the easi- But are they also 2 sufficient reason for an oticial declaration on the part Of our governor that there is danger these angry phrases s.u lead to an uprising' Are they good cause for even an intimation of that sor;? Let us see.
 I: is evident tha. tbe people have paid .no heed to these invitations to violence. Our press has always been prompt to find cut and eager to publish any dis position whatever Of the public mind, and there $ not sign ia any part of 1 the ierritory that ,ise people occupy any o:As. attitude tlsa that CGe ot long sui ienns though in5ignat protest which ;he tlying h.stoy q So many years has made us familiar vith. Indeed the governor awakening 70 q sense of his accusation, hastens 10 assure the people in his article hat they are perfectly law abiding Even he does not pretend that there IS any cause in the a,tHude Of the people for this proclamation.
 Are ari.cles Of ihis wild kind anything new m AEizJza's history that ise chiet -~t.---af our government, he who is our, mouih-pieCe b the aa.Aou.ies in Wash ingtcn, should lake alarm and publish to t3e world the ridiculous nonsense that il he w,re not ID the breach this people would be ;asing around not only thirst ins for, put actually shedding Indian blood;
 Our citizens know perfectly well that such VIII ngs are not new Every cut break Q: he Indians brings out speci- nens 0; ,hss wiid territory. The gov ernos has hunted UP few but We could have supplied hlm with scores of just such articles .hat have been printed l ircm tune io ;me for ten years back. The people lead them and pass them 1. bE. Our o.hcE s0veraOrs, Mccormick, Stafford, Fremont and Tritle were familiar with such talk but they had sense enough 10 recognize inc powers of sell control m olr people. They did not 'h.i.k pEoclamai.ons necessary 10 curb the passions Oi community that has proved is love of law by Its orderly ccnduci through 50 many years and z under ;he most cruel trials. ! Instead of in,lm2iing to the world thai they ruled over a cut ihroa, band !. .hey have he.- cp lhe opposite picture i, md shown !he east Ina; the atrocities :, commiy.e4 by the inoians are done upon i, ! people that has 10, furnished one / occasion fo. retaliation in many years -cde. ih!s truthful representation 'sod feeling was actually arising. and for s he fTsi tune n all our history there was .. prospect ahat good feeling, wiling ., >ss 70 do right and wise consideration ,o ! .... 'Ac t@c.s would give Us 3; length H ' ii.- aa s--cy in which both the west of Id :-- >@s. could j1ln hands. O,