Year: 1872

Titus able charge to the jury, in the famous Camp Grant Massacre trial, was published in The Weekly Alta California of February 3, and also in The Daily of the next day. These two publications will give extended publicity to the matter. All that is necessary to full understanding of that case, and more, too, Is thus made conveniently accessible to the whole

 public. The prosecuting attorney,

 Powell, adduced the worst and best

 evidence in existence on the trial, and

 was actuated by zeal unworthy any

 thing claiming kindred to humanity.

 He was assisted by the volunteer evil

 dence of participants in the affair,

 showing that the defense had no wish

 to conceal any material fact. He lied to Judge Titus as to what he could

 prove, before the trial, and during its

 progress, he took the stand to eXcul-

 pate himself from charge of coun- selling aid to the massacre" and,

 within a few minutes thereafter, ab- iectly suffered himself to be accused to his face, by Charles o. Brown, of false swearing. Such are some of the circumstances which enabled the pros ecution to get much of its best evi- dence, and such the character of the prosecuting attorney.

 A just public will see the limited testimony to sustain the case, and fairly compare it with the overwhelm- ing evidence in palliation and even justification of the "massacre." Those whose humanity is never conspicuous except when defending race who make theft and murder chosen means of subsistence, will garble the testi- mony and, as usual, hypocrltically ap- peal to God and mankind Ill behalf of that race, and invoke curses on men who honestly try to earn their living in peace; who expose their lives to open a country for the too cautious humanitarians to afterwards visit perchance live in. Judging from our own experience, professional humani- tarians are heartless beings without care for the deserving of their own kind, and blasphemers of Christianity therefore 1t must be expected that the mass of the testimony published in The Alta will supply only texts for their base harangues in behalf of thieves and murderers. There is comfort, however, in the fact that these heartless advocates of sustaining at public expense, the fiends who rob and murder our people, and labor to destroy earnest, honest pioneer settlers, are few in number. They are provi- dentially few, and why there are any, is one of the hidden mysteries. The small pox, cholera and black vomit may be wisely permitted to afflict mankind, and so may the professional humanitarian.

 In its remarks upon the testimony of the "massacre trial, The Alta truly says:

 The offense of the white man is palliated, if not justified by a large mass of evidence to the effect that the Apaches at Camp Grant were not properly guarded; that they could be absent for week at a time that they repeatedly went off stealing cattle and murdering white men that they brought back to the camp the plunder taken on their raids ; and that they made no secret of either leaving the camp or the purposes of their expedi- tions. Upon these points the testimony of Joseph Felmar, blacksmith at Camp Grant, is especially important. On the morning of the massacre, when ninety adult male Apaches should have been in the encampment, there were only twelve or fourteen-the remainder being absent for some unexnlained Durnose