Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-09-06
What it is.---Its Territorial Ex.
tent.
An Able Appeal for State
hood.
spearilsh l,eeister.

naFseilous, whlie those OF many of the
older states are felt to be limited. We
have every facility for advancing as one
of the foremost states. Our civil free.
dom. our home comforts, our educational
advantages, our opportunities for profes.
slonal distinction and for political pre-.
ferment. are beyond estimate, they are
immense, immeasureable. But oppor.
tunities for state aggrandizement, how.
ever great, and other possibilities within
our scope, however grand, unless rightly
used. are not of the slightest account.
The state is the civic order of society:
it is the society Of men existing in jurai
relations, and in associations which are
defined IN jural forms. 1t has for its
province the economic organization of
society, and it is formed in the institu.
tlon and maintenance of civil rights. 1t
is instituted in the maintenance of JUS.
tlce IN the necessary relations of life. or
civil Justice. This is the law which is
formative of the whole Reorganization, and
is defined in jural system.
The state has, in the historical devel.
opment of the United States, its amplest
and its highest organization. There has
been the illustration of its strength and
its conformance in the order of the whole !:
and also of it's evil, when, severed from
the whole, it has sought to build q
civilization OF some separate and special
interest. The formal organization Of the
state is in Legislative, executive and 1udi.
cial powers, through which its order is
construed. The legislative department
has its province presumed in the nature
OF the state and its special Limitation in
the Judicial department. The judic;..
organization and form of procedure is
necessarily more amply defined in the
object.of the state. The executive de.
partment ls defined in the Office of the
goyernor--a name not indicative of polit-
lcal precedence. nor suggestive of the
sovereignty of the state (as asserted anG
assumed by the present executiye,) but
denoting the direction of the internal
administration, asd the regulation or
maRisterial character Of the civil Office.
It is within the necessary conception of
the state to make provision for the insti.
tuition OF officers in the civil admlnistra-
ton; in the guardianship of interests, TO
enforce the execution of contracts and
wills, and the administration of estates
The form in which these are executed ID
of consequence since they are to be
maintained and enforced as positive Law
In the securance of interests, to regulate
the relations of capital and labor, and to
maintain and protect the division and
cooperation and freedom of labor. It is
to adjust the legal rate of interest upon
capital. 1t is to charter corporations
and to provide for their privileges. i'm.
munities and estates. In the direction Of
intercourse in trade and exchange, il has
the supervision of roads and highways
excepting only military and post roads
which are IN the immediate control oj
the nation. In the security of health
and sanitary possessions, it is to insti.
tute officers and boards of health. and
hospitals, and asylums, and houses fol
the intirm or incapable, or aged or in.
sane. and it is to provide for the poo,
and to appoint overseers OF them,
The territorial extent of the state
should be shaped by some circumstances
and considerations Of civil administra-
ton. 1t should conform mainly to the
content OF the state, and this content il
assured in our case by division on the
46th line-a division that will give Us an
area oae-half larger than either of The
states of New York or Pennsylvania, and
retain together people whose political
and business relations have been inti.
mstely connected and mutually
advantageous heretofore, and are
so at the present time. It vii
be q definite boundary and domain
which will have in them that attraction
of association, and that wealth which
gathers with the course of generations
as to become as the lines of q homestead
maintaining in every part a form o
government and organization cores
ponding to that of the nation, withou,
any lncongruity that would appear II
discordant forms or dimension.
The state of itself is incomplete. and
presumes the being of the nation IL
which it subslsts. The state of itself ha,
no permanence, and in the nation. alone
it has its consistent end. It is onlv a,
the nation is imminent in it, that L i,
brought into relation to its object in tn,
unity of the whole. Then it is no loro
er simply the private interest Of the in
dividual which is its end. but II i
the end of the nation itself-a mora
interest which gives to justice alone it
strength. 1t still institutes and admin
A5ACAo Ju5NASS V1tu ESlok6uC6 10 SO0 ln0l
vidual, and acts IN the maintenance O
private interests; but its work is n,
more for private end alone, nor simpl,
that each individual shall be secured Il
his special rights, but that all sources Q
disorder shall be removed, and all tha
hinders the administration OF justic
shall be overcome. It is this, ss tn
state subsists in the nation and II
moral order, that it brings to individus
rights permanence.
There has been in the historical cours
OF the United States the higher deyelor
ment of the civil and political organixa
ton OF society-the state and the natior
Their sequence is not the mere acc,dep
OF history, nor the introduction Of .
arbitrary theory, nor the assumption G
. legal formula; but il has been justifie
in the reason Of the state. It is an O,
ganization ampler and nobler than the,
who in the generations have builded il
it, could wholly comprehend; and faitt
fully in their own day, they have wroueh
in the aRes, building better than the
knew. It has been viudicated in polit
cal science in the pages Of its fewsmast
ers. It fills the almost prophetic cor
ception Of Milton-sNot many sov
sreignties united in one commonveatl
but many commonvealths in one unite
and intrusted sovereignty."
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