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Show THE ARIZONA INDIANS. , ' We aekno.k.lo the receipt from 11B. Kichard OlcCornilck, ik-Iegatc in corcs iroai Aw ol a copy of. .u.x-.Le-J.HvcrcJtyhiaiiQ the house of .prDltie onJrT JUnd, April 13, of the current year, on In- , diln affairs in Arizona, ihc peop.e j of that Territory have sul!ercd mueh from Indian depredations and ontrases, and naturally feel keenly on the sub-jeot sub-jeot liyruostofthemtheesterminat-i ir.g polieyii -tWy endorsed, .nam; view of stolen Mode homesteads burned, and men and women sluigh. liredor Savaely tortured and out-ra. out-ra. d, it is little mender that the better bet-ter feeling of humanity are blunted or Ji,r.'Karded by even humane men. Hie Apaches, particularly, are reported a li.-rcl, blooJtbiroly and savage - race, Ml of duplicity, and as untamcablc as II,.. hyena. Hut it mu.t be conceded f.atwi.l. their oruelty I hey arc brave. Wh-n we run back a few centuries to I tho tiieo our ancettors in Europe wore I ;;.,H and painted their bodies, and !,,'., , ,vr I he paee of lii.-tory eon-ten..,Lr eon-ten..,Lr ous with then), tho similar-l,r-mi-o the oiorgCf niade now .i.-'im-t the Indiius and those made , U r, a.iuim the liritons or wild tribes that inhabited central Kuropo, is somewhat some-what striking. Wo seldom refer to those barbarous ancestors of ours, but in our secret thoughts wo admire tho ucreo valor with which tbey combattcd tho advanoo of tho legionaries of polished and war-like Homo. And in a ,Uict sort of way, we Anglo-Saxons, Germans and Celts, aro rather proud than othcrwiso that we have sprung from such ancestry. W hat is the great difference between the Indians and our ancestors? Between Be-tween the Romans and ourselves? TYo are more scientitic, ruoro enlightened, and .should bo wiser than the Komans were. Wo advance into the Indian region with our arts and sciences, our agrieulturo and mining, tho Indians seeing in our settlements only the lodgment of foes in a country which, fur generations running away beyond even tradition, they and their ancestors ances-tors considered as their own. There is a great deal of human nature in tho aborigines, albeit it is savage human hu-man nature. And ono of the instincts of tho raco is to protect from violation viola-tion tho graves of our dead, and pre serve tho sou wo look upon as our inheritance from tho grasp of the Blranger. Do tho Indians know of ourgreatness, and power, and the utter impotence of their contesting the ad-vaneo ad-vaneo of tho whito wave that is washing wash-ing over their huntinggrounds? Have we taken proper pains to inform them that they do not own tho soil upon which they live, but of which we have received a fco-simplo by the right of might? Havo we not sent amongst them knavish and villainous agents who havo polluted and robbed them, and taught them to fear contact with tho whito raco as a precursor of death troru the most loathsome of diseases? And if we havo tried to adopt the plan by which Penn formed peacefully his settlement on tho Atlantic shore, has it not been after whito men, as ruthloss and nearly as savago as the aborigines, have borne to them the namo of the Christian's God on lips of blaspheming, and taught them to think that Christian virtue consisted in the most brutal gratification of lust? Every humane man, every just man, every progressive man, must desire to sec peaceful settlements of whites extending ex-tending over tho rich lands of Arizona, its vast treasures unearthed, and its people protected from Indian outrage?. But there is no need to be unjust in accusation against the aboriginal tribes. If they must be exterminated that 0 fair a portion of the continent may be developed by intelligence and science, there is no necessity for our adding to tho sanguinary policy a departure from the truth, by vilhfying a savage people who only emulate, without knowing it, the deeds of our own ancestors in their struggles against an aggressivo and overwhelming power. We arc gratified to note that in tbo main Mr. McCorniick's speeches were characterized by great moderation, and the policy ho urges towards the Indues, In-dues, briefly stated, is: Whip them well first, to teach them our power, and treat them well afterward. Under existing circumstances it is probably tho best that can now bo adopted. |