Year: 1871

of words to express his policy toward hostile savages, his common remark that "You can't whip Indians with orders," would come nearest to 1.-the

 long and short of which is, that "you can't cook hare before catching it. :"

 The great wars of the time-those wherein officers and men on either side are nearly equal in common sense, education and experience-may be successfully prosecuted by telegraph, and hence we should in justice infer that the officers great and small now commanding the U. s. Army earned and are entitled to hold their respective rank therein. But as officers to pros ecute war against the Apaches, ex- cept there be some lit one in general command to lead or direct them, quite a majority of those in the present reg ular army are as utterly useless as they are frequently ornamental. The regular service previous to the late rebellion, developed some of the right sort-a few of whom have been left over to us. The old army, however, grew rather aristocratic, and with many of its officers, since rapidly promoted, that anti-democratic and sticking for red tape feeling, has naturally grown in stead of diminished. They would like to have the people, of whom they are the veriest creatures and dependents of the entire ofice-holding makeup, let them severely alone; and the idea of coming down fiat-footed and fighting an Indian with the same interest and purpose to whip or over whelm him, as they would were white man their enemy, seems not to be entertained. We know there Is little glory and pro- motion awaiting the successful soldier in an Indian campaign, at the hands of the people at large, to the great mass of whom these border wars in their vast domain are about as distant and rightly understood as local dis turbance in the moon. Hence 1t is all the more clear that the duty of the military officer toward the citizen is an hundred fold more imperative. In short he is the Great Father of the civilian, for the time; his all, as 1t were. And no officer can make such warm lifelong, nor more valuable friends in the end, than he who does his whole duty in actions and sympa- thy toward 8 community that has to fight its way up through blood. The history of every State in the Union will bear most favorably on this point. On the other hand, an officer can breed himself i'll short order, the livliest and most lasting lot of enemies in cases of this description, unless he does about right and in the right spirit too; and the country ct large will seldom fail to remember this feature of his service. In view of the immense power in the volunteer way ever ready, the sugges- tion of Gen. Logan that the standing army should be abolished, met with a hearty second within and outside the Congressional halls. The occasion was debate on this same Texas and Arizona Indian question He rightly said there were troops enough if prop erly disposed. Gen. Sherman said he (Logan) didn't know what he was talking about"

 To conclude this Aggression, intend ed to draw attention to that love of red tape and ease. cropping out more strongly of course, where one happens to strike the current and has to make square fight against it. We know that when the name of the Ut. Colonel was presented, and pressed first and last through the usual channels, for the command of this Department, the coils of red-tape seemed to tighten in a corresponding ratio. The words of the last reply were-"m can't5e done" What prospect was here presented But hope had not failed. And the President, then, out of all patience, said 1t could and sh0ula be done, and he quickly found a way and did it.

 The want of this Department is less wind and more work. Wanted-a man 2 L