The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1878-09-05
SI;SlC III Dakota.

Those who are timid at a prospective
division Of our Territory would do well
to read the following article from the
Deadwood Times:
The next state that will be admit ed
into the unlou must come from the terri
tory of Dakota on the north or be cut or
carved of the state Of Texas in the south
The policy of the government which pre-
vailed when Texas was admitted coutem-
plated and provided for the divisions of
that state, at no distant day, into six lis.
! tinct and separate states, for, according to
the cherished idea of Calhoun, to "hold
the balance of power to protect slavery
| In the organization Of the territories in
the great northwest while at that time the
| g government was always ready and willing
to give them a territorial organization, it
never encouraged or gave counlenance to
the idea OF sta,es.
| We apprehend that if the people Of the
! Hills could be united in supper, Of a new
territorial organization separate and apart
from Dakota, it could be readily and cas-
/ lily accomplished ct the next session Of
congress. Accomplished, and what then,
Why lonly that the territory of Dakota
| would COntinue rs an Insignificant part Of
| the government for the next fifteen to
| twenty years, as it has for the past, and the
territory of Lincoln would keep her COM
| tany. This and nothing more. The new
| territorial scheme was never fully and
| claborately discussed before or by the peo-
pie and the only strength and Importance
1t ever assumed was IN the fact that Il few
democratic politicians, having made such
| n DIN and noise about it that they made
beliuvc that the scheme was going thro'
with a furore, the republicans to head
them off and Dot allow them to get away
| with all the "plunder' IN case Of success,
| called o convention, sent a delegate to
Washington and resolved they too were
in favor of new territory. Since then
the bottom has fallen ont of the whole
thing and it is deader than a corpse.
The next stale that is admitted, as we
said before, is certain to come from Dako-
ia or Toxas. SO virtually the old contest,
between the north and the south, of hold
ing the balance of power will appear
again in the admission of the next state.
The next state that will be admitted into
the union must have within itself the cle-
ments Of population and wealth sufficient
to prove to the country that at least it is
fairly entitled to one member of congress.
For both parties are likely to be So evenly
| balanced in the national government that
no new state seeking admission can de-
pend upon its "political friends" for
success.
1t was the ambition of Judge Kidder TO
serve as delegate from Dakota until he
could see the territory transformed into a
state. 1t is an honorable ambition and
| worthy TIE aspiration of any man. The
proposed disruption of the territory that
| was agitatcd with so mnnh u.':----~---
year ago, retarded and for the time being,
made any effort stewards, futile and In
eiiecluai But it must be evident to every
lispass.o:l ito and Intelligent reador that if
we are to enjoy the privilege and blessings
of living under a state governmc t within
the next ten or fifteen years, we can secure
it only by Dakota territory continuing as
whole, in one indivisible compact body
| polite, and combining her population and
wealth now aud for the next two years to
| this end, and by the time the census of
| 1880, we shall make an exhibition Of pop
ula,on and wealth much largea than any
| territory since the organization OF the
government, had upon its application for
! adm issiOn as a state.
The significance of Judge Bennett
nomination in Onr mind, is that he Will
be the instrument and medium whereby
and through whom this important and
weghty event, traught with SO many con
sequences of political freedom ard pros.
perity to thousand, of our people who viii
be united under the government of a free
and independent stste, will finally be con
sumated and brought to a happy fruition,
and that before the expiration of his first
term. The unanimity with which the
nomination was rendered, from all sec
tions of the territory, coDclusivcly shows
that he was the choice and representative
of the people more than any other of the
candidates. Probably they did not fully
comprehend the reasons and motives
which impelled them to this course. Of
course Judge Benefits character and abil
ity alone Of themselves were sufficient to
make him desirable canddate-but there
was an instructive, indefinitely, inteliigi.
bic power, which inspired every delegate
in that convention to feel that there was
the man. In unity there is strength
and in his nomination we have unity
which if nurtured and cultivated and
maintained. in very few years will carry
the statehood"