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

interested in the conduct of public at-
fairs: while affairs in north Dakota are
more directly in the hands OF large capi-
talists and extensive operators ana
speculators, who are able to dictate the
policy of their region by their influence
upon the large bodies of farming peo-
pie in their employ or under their con-
troll. No commonwealth could be sat
isfactorily managed wherein two ele-
ments so diverse might be joined.
They ask it because they have the
right to SO organize their government, |
that the expense thereof shall be less
burdersofne; and experience demon
strates that the rate OF taxation for
state purposes Is mitch less In small
commonwealths than in larger ones,
statistics proving that while the assess
ment for this purpose in Delaware and
Rhode Island is ten mills on the dollar,
it is in New York twenty-One mills, and
in Illinois twenty-four.
They ask it because the records of the
legislative enactments show that it is
impracticable to establish laws which
shall be of uniform operation through
out two sections of a commonwealth OF
such diverse interests and pursuits as
north and south Dakota.
They ask IL because the proposed area
of the new state is as large as permits
of economy of government and the free
and fair exercise of the political prlVi-
leges Of good people; for, that to or
ganiZe into one state 80 large an area rs
the present territory of Dakota practi-
cally precludes the poor man from par
[ticipating in it's conventions and man
agement, thus tending to make it only
IL rich mans government, which Is con-
trnry fn fhn li1.artv and Snirlf nj IN
stitutions.
And, furthermore, on behalf of the
principles enunciated in the declaration
of independence, and in behalf Of law
and precedent as established by con-
| gress and recognized by our courts we
do declare that the right indisputably
rest with the people to define their own
boundaries and adopt their own consti-
tuition.
Because the compact contained in tire
ordinance of 1887, which has been eX-
tended over the people of Dakota by
five successive acts of congress, guaran-
tees "absolute and inviolably to them,
the right to form apermanent constltu-
tion and state government whenever
said territory should contain 10000 free
Inhabitants
Because the treaty by which the
is" the supreme law of the land" guar
antecs to the people of Dakota terrific
ry, as absolutely and inviolably as the
ordinances of 1887, that they shall be in
corporated in the union of states, and
admitted as soon as possible according
to the principles of the federal consti-
tuition.
Because the highest judicial authority
in the land has solemnly declared that
congress has no just power to hold and
govern these people permanently in the
character of territory.
Because the rights and privileges
have heretofore been recognized and
given to large number of existing
states, among them being Tennessee,
Arkansas, Michigan, Florida and Iowa.
Because we are now deprived of the
most sacred rights and privileges of
American citizenship, on account of the
wide eXpansc of our domain and the
limited and inadequate indiciaI system
consequent upon the territorial cOndi-
tion, for that the writ of habeas corpus
is practically suspended in large por-
tions of the commonwealth, and other
extraordinary legal remedies are not
readily attainable, and on account of
the great expense made necessary by
the long distance which parties and
their witnesses In many cases are COM
PEELED to travel to reach the courts to
attend trial.
Because if admission be longer delay
, ed the supply of public lands will be so
nearly exhausted that the state cannot
receive from The general government
: the grants for publ" purposes. which
by the customs and pyccedantS in other
cases have been so freely given to new
states; for, that on account of the rapid
: development of Dakota, settlement is
l going in advance of the public surveys
f thus absorbing lands designed for
school and other purposes, which it will
be impossible to replace.
l Because the people of Dakota, in
whom the right of self-government in,
= hcrently rests, nave repeatedly, through
acts and memorials of their legislatures
through their representatives in three
= several conventions for that purpose
a spontaneously assembled, and through
their entire press declared their will and
: determination that Dakota. south OF
the forty-siXth parallel, should now be
= come a state.
V Now, therefore, in view of the great
interests at stake, and that our rights
4 stste~hJOd secured. this convention, ap
e peals to every citizen in Dakota south
/ of the forty-sixth parallel to give hi:
o vote and influence for delegates to tht
constitutional convention to meet Sep
Q tember 4th, 1883, and spare no etfor
e that honest, able and loval men shall b,
f chosen to represent them, and the sup
@ port they may receive at the polls shal
. demonstrate our numbers and patriot
y ism, so that the constitution framed
d shall reflect our intelligence and guar