Year: 1878

The removal of nearly all the U. s. troopl

 from the Department of Arizona is certainl!

 au occasion for alarm; not simply the cx

 citemeHt of groundless fears, but real anc

 reasonable apprehension of absolute danger

 The experience of the past in every State

 and Territory of the Union, and especially

 those on the Pacific slope, has been th4i

 the apparent subjection Of the Indian tribes

 in the first instance, has been deceptive,

 and that when they have become better

 acquainted with the resources and habits

 of white people, they have invariably inau-

 gurated second and even a third war,

 which in magnitude and cruel atrocity has

 more than riyaled their first attempt. This

 they have been enabled to do the more effectively by the possession of improved

 arms and ammunition in much greater numbers and quantities than it was possi- ble for them to obtain before they had associated with aud learned the ways of the pale faces.

 We are told by those whose business has called them to travel among the Apaches since they have been in subjection, that no opportunity is allowed to pass them unim- proved which presents chance to obtain a gun or ammunition, and that to-day the Indian population of Arizona is better armed than the white citizens, in propor- tion to numbers.

 The system of enlisting Indian troops into the service and re-enlisting them every six months, and of arraying one tribe against another, thus fighting Indians with Indians. has worked to charm in the pres ence of 6 sufficient white force to chastise them in case of insubordination or treachery but in the ab ence of this wholesome re- stralnt, who can foresee the end of possi- be war, such as this military schooling and the possession of an abundant supply of warlike appliances, will have enabled them to inaugurate and carry out The Indian scouts are not fools; they see and know that nearly all the effective service, either as scouts or in battle, is performed by themselves, the white soldiers who ac- company them being little more than attendants to do guard duty and the like; and this knowledge has given them sort of contempt for white soldiers, whom they regard as their interiors in everything akin to prowess, either in war or in the chase; they really despise the ordinary white sol dier as menial fit only to do such duty as an Indian scorns and cannot be enticed 10 engage in. The cunning of officers, for whom they have respect and fear, has kept up feuds between themselves, which has thus far been safeguard against their against their common enemy the whites; but when they find out the truth, which is that there are not 800 able bodied enlisted white men in Arizona to day, it will be an easy matter for them to forget their ancient feuds, as nearly all others have done. and combine for gene raj war against the whites. Such war as can here be started will nut to shame all the feeble sorties of Sitting Bull, Joseph, Captain Jack, and Buffalo Horn. A gene rsl uprising of all the varioas tribes of Apaches, which this withdrawal of troops seems to be purposely intended to invite. will result in more destruction to life and than all the raids of all the tribes that have from time ts time broken out elsewhere. America no where else con- tains race of Indians so formidable in savage atrocity and cruelty as the Apaches, and who shall say that we are not right upon the verge of an impending criS;s