Year: 1874

history: one was the partial statement of our Sufferings by our Legislature appeal ing to the nation with long list of

 the death Of many of our friends and neighborS cut off in the prime of man. ly vgOr, in atGem pting to develop this Territory, for want of protection from the Central Government; the other was the Camp Grant massacre in which our friendly Indian allies, Mexican and Amer lean citizens, with a united instinct for Self-preScrVatiOn, joined and slew public

 enemy enScOnced behind an arm of the

 Central Government. These were actions

 springing from the heart of our people,

 and consequently carried with them an

 eioquence that was felt, and reused to ac-

 ton our enemies, producing the report or

 the Indian Commissioners for 1871, the Vil-

 est production drawn entirely from eX p3rte statements, driven to its own de-

 fence, that ever was printed atthe expense of a government. So blind were they in

 pursuit Of Our people. they assert that 1t

 is ineXpedient to execute law against

 Indians in a certain condition, and de-

 clare that the Grand Jury of Pima County,

 Arizona, acting under the obligation of

 their OathS, by indicting ESkiminzin, did

 commit an unlawful act, and, by their

 overwhelming influence, he was allowed

 to continue his murders and miSlead his

 people. With what keen sarcasm they

 pursue our Governor, because hlS sensitive

 heart causes him to gyrate in an attempt

 to plead for us as he goes to the-yOu

 know where a Governor must go who re-

 ceiVeS his appointment from a higher

 power, instead of being able to defend the

 people as such a man would, did his pow

 CT come as it should from free people.

 By this eX parte statements, they enlist

 BoStOn's greatest orator in their cause:

 and in reply 10 his thrilling appeal to the

 American people for the execution of law

 in Arizona, ] would say: Deep down in

 the hearts Of the American people, from

 the shores fthe Pacific back to the shores

 of the Atlantic, there is a sentiment that

 knows no law but of simple justice, and

 this sentiment. in the most thrilling

 flights Of his wonderful elOquence, he has

 taught to thousands as he related his first

 and greatest lesson of youthful wisdom,

 learned in the streets of Boston as he

 urged his commander to call out the mili-

 tia 10 execute the law against the enraged

 mob Of citizens in the street, and his gen.

 eTal replied: Don't you see the militia are before us and the attacking party?

 Does not this orator, when he asserts that the Indian can say of the United States government :" Its word is a lie, it's treaties a snare, and its flag a Shame," not only ar r2ign the government but the Peace Con- miSSiOnerS? who without attacking our Indian system for it's deSpOtic assumption of all the inherent rights Of man, and never punishing an Indian Agent for any of his crimes, have by placing this system under the protection of the Churches, but Widened the phylactarieS of their gar ments that cover the increasing enormi- ities or it's crimes, while they have scarce ly produced ripple on the sea of it's abus- es: and if these sage philosophers of the government |" thus pursue their plan, re- gard less of the raw material man, as the Indian rises in his own defense, should tue frOntiersman be stigmatiZed for paint ing him black as he has to receive the shock that forces him back to subjUgation; and would like to ask this learned orator that instead of stigmatizing the fringe of civilization that comes in contact with

 barbarism, to have told the truth, he should not have said the wrongs commit ted by the' Central Government in the treatment Of barbarianS, rouses them to attack the fringeS of civilization that comes in contact with them, and thus keeps up continual war that, were the oI1ceS Of Government restricted to the simple protection of each party against the wrongs of the other, might in a great measure be avoided. And why does he draw bis noblest tribute to the Indian race from a man who had spent his life as Q part of this fringe? Did not Washington and nearly all the heroes that formed this Republic, down to Clay and Jackson, form at time a part of this fringe of civiliZa- tiOn?-the only marked exception being that of Calhoun. Educated amid the ar iStOcracy Of South Carolina, his powerful mind drank deep in the metaphysics of Aristotle, and miSled the people, until that embodiment of the energy and clear sightedness Of frontiersmen, Jackson, felt that it was his greatest political mistake that he had not caused him to be tried and executed for his treason.

 Observing MajOr-General Mcdowell for years with that life and death interest that the people of Arizona have been obliged to look at theIr generals, l remarked to his Medical Director. that with the many noble qualities of head and heart that he (McDOWelD possessed, believed he lack ed the one essential quality for general the power to command llen. He replied, was certainly mistaken that his activity, observation and care for his troops, were remarkable and the inspection of no gen eral was more severe; he looked even into my tea kettle in the hospital and asked me what it contained, and how often made 1t. l told him it was tea and made 1t once day. His reply was-DO you call this tea? Tea is an infusion and should be made and drank at once; this is de- cOction and a poison for the soldiers. l asked the Medical Director if any change. was made, and he replied there was not. Such is my belief of the perfect inability of MajOr-GeneIal Mcdowell to command men, that if his Medical Director was shrewd, polite and polite, the General would hardly know how to prevent his sick soldiers from taking poison, unless the Director voluntarily produced the re- form. Major-General Mcdowell told me that one of his district commanders had held his soldiers TOtting in inactivity for months while our citizens were being rob bed and murdered by the Indians, with no other excuse except the want of salt for his soldiers, and yet this officer received no public reprimand. Another of his dis stupid and inactive, from the excessive use of S;imulants in the condition that he probably was when his regiment won for him the rank of Brig. General, and he