The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-04-25

Mass meetings in favor Of aterritorial
organization for the Black Hills are the

Mass meetings in favor of aterritorial
organization for the Black Hills aretne
order of the day in the mining towns,
and the carpet-baggers of the latest I'M
p~ortation are addressing meetings in
support of the proposition. An extra
session Of Congress isdemanded without
delay to carry into effect the wishes Of
the sovereigns of the Hills, and resolu-
tions condemning the Dakota outfit,
who fill all the county offices with peo-
pie from Yankton and other towns in
eastern Dakota, r being adopted with
remarkable unanimity. We would ask
our friends in the Black Hills to keep
cool and first await the report of the
U. S. survey Of the eastern boundary of
Wyoming. If, as we confidently an
ticipate, the Black Hills settlement,
including Deadwood and Custer, are in
Wyoming, there will be NJ need of a
new territory being formed ofthe Black
Hills, as the people there will have all
the machinery of civil government at
their very do ors, and all the advantages
row enjoyed by the people of Wyoming
from Cheyenne to Evanston, a distance
of nearly five hundred miles. If the
people of Wyoming Territory do not
suffer on account of the distances inter
vening between the several settlements,
we dare say that the inhabitants of the
mountains in the north, only about two
hundred and fifty miles distant from
the southern border and the seat of
government, can an d will be accommo-
dated by the system of territorial gov
eminent vouchsafed to us by Uncle
Sam.
We admit that the Black Hills peo-
pie have but little in common with the
inhabitants of the river counties in Da-
kota, and that the immense, barren
country which separates the two sec
tions will prove a perpetual and effec-
tual cause of disunion between the two
sections; they are antagonistic, to each
other, and will not assimilate, and the
territorial officials of Dakota have done
ali in their power to widen the breach.
But, on the other hand, Wyoming
people, from the time the first discover
les were made in the hills, to the pres
ent day, have ever been the ardent
friends and substantial supporters of
the Black Hills pioneers; a large num-
Der of her old citizens Were among the
first to reclaim the northern country
from the possession of the Indians.
Whatever may be of benefit to the har-
dy pioneers in the north, will rebound
to our advantage as a territory; what
ever interest the mining settlements
may have, are first in Importance to all
the people of Wyoming. Connected as
we are by telegraph and daily mail COM
munication within fifty hours ride of
the principal town in the hills, and
with Il good prospectfor speedy II
ton by rail with the northern set
Elements, what can there be wanting
by the Black Hills people, that Wyo-
ming Territory, extended over all the
Black Hills mining settlements, cannot
render them, excepting the privilege OF
statehood, which will come to them so
muchsooner, if theykeep up their connec-
ton with the southern part of Wyoming.
Congress, and especially the Senate,
is rather conservative in the matter of
organizing new territories, and II
friends in the Black Hills will save
much valuable time, if they would unite
with the people of Wyoming in a nov
ment looking toward the attachment of
that part of the hills, which
may, by the Official survey
be found outside of this territory,
permanently to the broad and fruitful
domains of the youngest child of Uncle
Sam. United we would be able to
achieve a glorious and prosperous fu-
ture.