Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-06-28
DAKOTA'S DECLARATION,


Whs<h was Adopted by the Huron COnven-
ton.
TO TIE PEOPLE OF DAKOTA:
When the sentiment becomes unani-
nous in the minds of quarter of
million of patriotic, liberty-loving, law
abiding, God-fearing people that there
are certain rights to which they are en-
titled but of which they are deprived,
common fairness and common decency
demands that respectful attention and
consideration should be given to their
claims for the exercise of those rights
and privileges.
For the sake of emphasizing and for
nally promulgating the claims which
the citizens of the southern portion of
Dakota make in the matter of state
hood and its rights and privileges,
convention of three hundred and fifty
delegates chosen from the several coun-
ties met at Huron June IS, 1883, these
being full representation from every
organized county but three, and from
number Of counties not yet organized.
These representatives upon the definite
issue of taking steps for securing state
hood for that portion Of the territory
designated, in convention assembled,
as the duly selected representatives Of
two hundred and fifty Thousand people
unsurpassed for intelligence and patri-
otlsm, and most solemnly and with one
voice declare it to be the unalterable
and absolute demand Of that people
that they be vouchsafed the exercise of
those rights promised them as citizens
of these United States whenever they
should number 10000 souls, guaranteed
to them by solemn treaty at the time
the regions, a portion of which they oc-
cupy, became a part of the domain of
the United States, asserted for such as
they by the fundamental law of four
teen commonwealths, and guaranteed
to them by every precedent that cap
possibly be considered as bearing upon
this issue. 1t is but just and right and
in due Difference to the sisterhoOd of
which southern Dakota desires to be-
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