Year: 1872



 falsely called Christian civilization" are requested to read the following reply of an Apache chief, made through an Army officer, to the infamous white wretches who do all the talking about Indian atrocities in Ari- zona. Whatever may have been the barbar- ities of the Indians who are always barbar- ous when at war, it is clear enough that they were overmatched by white ttends in Arizona. The Indian said:

 iN After my people were killed at the massacre of April 3O, and my children taken captive by the people Of Tucson, and were not returned to me, and the soldiers having again fired upon me, went 10 the mountains upon the warpath They Lad killed my two wives, my four children and forty-siX women and children of my band and was crazy. Who would not have been? When you sent q man out 10 the mountains to me, tell ing me that a commissioner sent out by the Great Father Was at the post to talk with me and make peace with Us, and wished to me, 1 came in. You promised me safety. told him all 1 had done and he said to me if 1 would live here and do right all should be forgiven and l came in with my people, and was soon told that some of my people were offered 100 yards of calico te kill me. You told me if l was attacked the soldiers would fight for Us but instead of that am now huHtcd from the reservation and obliged to hide like a dog. l will do nothing to break up the peace; but it seems il is not to be peace for me- Omaha Herald.

 

 We deem it matter of simple justice to the annotator whom we have just quoted, to state our firm conviction that his blind pre- judices upon this subject render him wholly incapable of expressing the sentiment worthy ofa White man and good citizen. This being the case; it being our province to labor with the hope of establishing correct under standing upon the Indian question in ArizO- ma, and feeling satisfied that simple state ment of facts were worse than useless as a means of dislodging the idiotic prejudiccs of some men-the editor of the Herald for eX- ample-we will treat all such men to an il- lustration.

 The editor to whom we have referred sets forth a" extract from that which is claimed to have been speech delivered by an Apache chief. in Arizona. The article Is fur UT p..,. and, it will be observed, the chronology of the event has not ben Overlooked-which is a very remarkable fact when we consider that the Apache is wild, brutal, ignorant, murderous savage who has about as clear an idea of the cyclical divisions of time as the lowest brute has of astronomy or navigation, and who possesses no other instincts than those common to the wildcat and the pan ther.

 But the speech quoted above was not more remarkable, perhaps, than the following, de- livered by another Apache chief from the of this town, immediately after the "Massacre of Hualpai." Muk-awash, the speaker, said ::

 < "It was at Hualpai Valley The moon was young and it was in the night The people of my tribe sous@t 'o learn the wisdom of the pale face; and the old, gray haired men and women, and the youths and t.e maidens of yny people assembled at the place appointed by the White man. There were assembled all the people Of my tribe but HOW l have no tribe, no home. was with my people in Hualpai valley, but my people are not with me and I am alone and hunted like wild beast, while I beg for peace. visit Hualpai valley and there see the bones of my wives, of my mother, of my children and of my father; the sight makes me wild through despair, and I want to kill all the White men and then die. We wished to learn the wisdom of the white men and be like unto them, wise: but your chief deceived us and grouped us together so that none might escape the lightning of the Great Spirit which he had borrowed to des- | | olD I fo die and go to my wives and my mother and children, in the Happy Hunting Grounds .';'

 Now, was not this a rather pathetic ap- peal from the lips of an Indian, standing soli- tary and friendless upon an isolated rock :? Yes, but the pathos is idle for Muk-a- 1-axash is only being of imagination, the speech w"'-~ever spoken, and the " Massacre of lIualpai 5 is myth

 It is simply the object of the writer to it. lustrate to the thick -skulled slandercr, who speaks of " malignant hellhounds," ;" white fiends," etc., that paper cannot refuse ink :; and hence, that the extract by which he hopes to sustain his assertion, can be an emanation from the brain of some slippery rascal acting under the influence of the infa- nous Indian ring We opine, however. that the extract which we have reproduced from the Herald was written at one of Coyer's reservations, by an individual whom we could name, and lighted under subtle, morbid influence exercised by the presence of dis honored squaw. The words were never uttered by an Indian.

 Maricopa County.