Year: 1872

1 ITIES.

 | By n circular issued from Department headquarters, (pursuant to instructions rom Division headquarters), which was published in our last issue, it will be seen that hostl!i- ties against tie Apache Indians have again been suspended-that hypocrisy and fanatic ism have again triumphed over common sense. This is an occurrence for which we were absolutely unprepared. We could not have believed that the Administration which had just learned, through the detec- ton of volume of falschoods entitled The Report of Vincent Colyer," how grossly it had been deceived-would follow this dis covery by an apparent effort to deceive itself. Yet such has been the case-and whether voluntary or otherwise, the effort Las proven successful.

 General Crook and the whole force which he commands must remain passive (while the Indians are spreading death and destruction on every side,) until after another Govern ment agent shall have reported upon the say ages of Arizona-Whites as well as Indians. l Heretofore, we of Arizona have battled against advcrsitics, with the belief that nothing more was necessary to the estab- lishment of peace than that thorough un- derstandng with regard to the actual condi- ton of the Indian question here should be acquired by Congress and the Departments :; but our conviction in the matter has deceiv- ed us, and now, for the first time, we knoae that tie Administration understands the sit nation and trihes with it.

 General o. o. Howard has been appointed to investigate the Indian troubles in Arizona He will come among us with all his sympath- ies on the side of the savage and arrayed against those unbendng spirits who might we'll be regarded as tie nations pride-who patiently pursue toward completion the self imposed task of proclaimng the dominion of modern civilization from the heart of a will derness wbereon the graves and ruined habi- tations of White men record a savage war and supremacy of centuries. It is not un- reasonable to suppose that the new agent will indeed, come among us with very decided bias toward the Indian. This is only natural. There was time when even we felt sympathy for the "poor, ignorant Apache" but that was the time when we saw him only through the uncertain medium of an authors pen. We have, however, in common with all the other pioneers of Arizona, learned to look upon the human beast as he is, and no longer as ca price, fanaticism, and hypocrisy have painted him.

 Whether General Howard will prove as memorable and as impracticable as his prede- cessor, we are unable to say; but, candidly, we think he will not. There are several considerations which go to sustain this opin- ion. In the first place he has a public record and it is neither that of liar, hypocrite, nor canting robber, and Colyer was known to be all these combined, long before he ever set foot in Arizona; in the second place we do not believe that any other than renegade minister of the Gospel would connive at per jury for the purpose of obtaining affidavlts to deceive his master, and therefore, if Gen. Howard should find it necessary to collect affidavits he will not by bribery or intimida- tion obtain signature, under oath, to any statement he may wish to set forth; that Colyer did this at Camp Grant, is notorious. Yes, we have more confidence in General Howard, to do justice on both sides of this question than we ever felt in the wretch whose hands are red with the blood of young Loring and those who fell with him.

 But however faithful to humanity General Howard may prove, it will take years, per haps, to undo the evil which his mission, at this juncture, must call forth. Knowing beforehand how utterly useless any other ef fort than the most energetic war, to establish peace in Arizona, many of the most industri- ous and worthy of the settlers will not wait to sec the culmination of the new absurdty. They adhered to hope while aught remained upon which to build up an expectation, but now that the Government seems determined that the lives of its citizens, in Arizona, shall be made toy and play-thing for savages, they are preparing to escape without the boundaries of the doomed Territory aad seek homes in some more favored region.

 How many will participate in the flight the lapse of few years, with its array of deserted mines, farms and babitations, will remain 10 prove. We would advise our friends, in the mean time, to invest no more of their means in improvements, until it shall be shown that this reign of soulless, pampcred destroyers is at an end.

 Right.