Year: 1871

cn a reservation; put them in charge of good men; furnish them with food and seed to plant; see that they toll for their bread as white men have to do; educate, christianize and throw all the moral influences possible around them; and guard them so that they cannot go at will off the reservation and pillage and murder. Their prom ises amount to nothing, and to insure peace and save lives of innocent and industrious people, they will have to be guarded while this generation lasts.

 Now I believe I have stated the opinions entertained by nearly every man who hls had practical experience with hostile Indians, and particularly the Apaches. Why is it that our East ern friends should assume to know more about 1t than we do? Oh! but some say the pioneers of new countries are in the main bad, unfair men. Now, if they would but reflect, they would certainly admit that not all who go to our new Territories are bad men; and if a man were good and just in the East, he will assuredly prove an equally good man wherever he goes. My experience has taught me that humanity Is about the same the world over, and nowhere have I found a keener sense of justice and right than in our new States and Territories. I have observed that as a population be- comes old, family and wealth govern the status of a man far more than his true worth; while in new countries, men are generally accepted and treated III accordance with their con- duct and dealings with their fellow men. If we were to go to one of our friends at the East and attempt to in struct him in business he had been familiar with from boyhood, and he should ask us where we had derived information that would enable us to teach him, and we replied from books only-for we had never seen busi- ness of the kind; and if he appreciated that the books we had studied gave us not the shadow of truth regarding the business, he would naturally feel in dignant If we insisted that he should follow our advice. Yet Eastern people act more unreasonably towards us, for they have the power in many in stances to compel ns to follow their plans, and we are not only made for years and years to lose all we accu- mulate, but many of our bravest and best men and women are murdered.

 l will not continue the subject fur ther. 1 have stated in hurried man. her what I believed to be the views of the people of this Territory on the h. dian question, and now l want an ex- pression from the five hundred or more who are around me as to whether such are your views or not? 1 find I am right i'll my oplnions-not a single voice IS heard in the negative.

 In conclusion,ssI want to say one word more about our organization. It has been said that the people of Ari- zona were not patriotic nor enterpris- ing. Now 1 know that large DOT ton of you have expended every dol lar saved from Apache thrift and theft of your years of toll, to make this expedition. You have before you months of labor and hardship. You are going through country that many others have tried to penetrate, and whose bones lie bleaching on those far off mountains; while some others have returned with broken ranks and wounds. You are going to endeavor to discover and report tc the world, we hope, resources in a country almost wholly unexplored, that will be of value to hundreds and thousands of poor people. Is there any American who will say that you are not fully doing your part towards the advance ment of our great and glorious coun- try? In leading you, I shall do all in my power to conduct you through | safely. That my best exertions shall be exerted, I believe you fully appre- ciate.