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Show THE INDIAN OUTRAGES IN AKIZONA. Our C.ili!'oru'.a eiAaa-jri cjuiu to u.i Willi il.: !;iil-.J r.: (ji.rt.1 of the la'C lillillj! of Italian! n. ar Cainp firant r-rva-ti.,0. Sinn aix'ount.i n-prLMc tit it t" IO a vsli'il'i'oiu'i retaliation on a band of !iaai: !.i re l Landed IVuui Inurd'T a n I il:va.tatioti. Oiln:r mii-'iuatiz.) it ai a coM blo i lc l bu'rliory of unanni:'! Indian, win) Lad Ji:livi:rcJ tliein.it'lvur ri.-u(ii:ri to tlic ( i iivcrninciit fire:, and wore woiLin at tbo tmio ia(i.iii bay from ei.;ht to ti:n mile-. T1i-m-latti-r rriorti uv.r tliat thu.-o LilkJ w:rti iiioitly cliildren. The only fact that .'.ooiiii clear i.i, that i-liort ami bloody work an m .do of a lar'O nuiu-ln:r nuiu-ln:r of Indium by eiaiiinriited anil, by tbn ai'tion r'-"irtcl, nearly as favagc whiten. Tliu nimibiT of outriKi'H perpetrated by Indian uiiioiil' our Miutbcrn neie;h-bor neie;h-bor of Arizona lias been very lariic within a few months. Tin) aborigine.-aro aborigine.-aro uniniitakably on tlio war-path in that Territory, and they are, warliti! aiul danerouH eiieuiii'.-i. The result i.i, the feelini; ntnonir the whito popula tion is strongly for a war of externa nation. They wouM bunt Jowu tbeir enemie.s mereiles ;ly and destroy every remnant of thorn. So strongly was ut-. ut-. teraneo driven lat fall to this s-enli-inent, that I lm. Vincent Culyer was threatened with rotten e'ns if be , uliould show bitu-elf in that I'erritury, . in coneiiieuee of bis activity in Khali of a friendly policy towards the Fav-m's. Fav-m's. There is much reason for this feelini;, but there are also apologetic grounds for not juditim; the InJians too harshly. tt' course they are bloodthirsty, blood-thirsty, vengeful and murderous. Hut they have been sbaniufully treated by reckless whites. They have been plundered, too, by dishonest and scoundrelly scoun-drelly agents, w ho have much of their horrid work directly to be accountable for. And whatever may be said of the Indians, they are generally faithful faith-ful to their treaties. When an agent or other pcr.-on representing the ''Great Father" at Wa.-hingtou rueetwithj' them and a treaty is made, they think : the bargain is completed, and cannot , understand that there is a grand Tow-! mt called the Senate, without whose consent the '"tireat Father's" treaty , is ju.-t so much w.te paper. And' when such a treaty is not ratified, by ; the Senate they consider faith is broken with them. All these points have to bo weighed in forming a correct csti-' mate of the Indian outrages; and in 1 view of them a war of extermination would be a foul stain on the national cseuccheou. a stain which would look eveu blacker to our posterity than to tha humaue of this geueratiou. But the settlers iu Arizona must have piotcetion. So rich a portion of the national domain cannot be permitted permit-ted to bo vacated because of a few 1 bands of roving sivagc. And the . only proper way to accomplish this seems to be to get honest men for agents, send troops to protect those agents, whip the Indians into a treaty if necessary, puoh whites for outrages on Indiaus, and give the latter practical prac-tical illustration of how the whites understand un-derstand justice by punishing only the red meu who merit punishment. The Indian policy of vergeaueo is, if a white man injures hiui to retahate : upon the first white that falls in his ; power; but ho should be taught by instruction aud example to approximate approxi-mate to enlighteued justice, which punishes pun-ishes the guilty only. |