Portal:Government of the Territory of Arizona

“ To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled:—
Your memorialists, the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona, respectfully represent, that the depredations of the hostile Apaches are now the only barrier to a speedy settlement of this Territory. The working of mines of unequalled value, the occupancy of farming and pastoral lands of excellent quality, and the development of all the resources of the Territory, depend upon the subjugation of the barbarous foe so long a terror of the settler within our borders. ”

“ It were vain to solicit capital or emigration until the power of the Apache is broken. Recent campaigns against him, waged by civil and military expeditions, have been attended with considerable success; but enough has not been done, and your memorialists respectfully request the aid of government in prosecuting a war until the Apache shall be forced, as the Navajo has been, to go upon a reservation. ”

“ That when California was admitted into the Union as a State, in eighteen hundred and fifty, it was admitted with the same boundary on the south, as declared in her constitution, that was specified in the said treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and run by the commissioners aforesaid, the River Colorado separating the small tract of land before specified from the remainder of the State. ”