St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-29
DAKoTA's ADMISSION.

Mr.. HUGH CAMPBELL is little sensi-
tive about his Louisiana record and doesn't
hesitate to tell Senator VEST that he ought
to spare his feelings in this regard Mr..
CAMPBELL ought to remember that the
presidential fraud of 1875 is one of the cpl
sodes of American history that will never
be forgotten and that the perpetrators of it
will never be forgiven. Theft of the ballot
is an objectionable sin in republican govern
ments. 1t is crime for which there can
be no atonement. Like the primal mark
of disgrace which rested on the brow of the
first murderer it stamps itself upon the per-
petrator of the crime to point him out as
the object of all mems contumely and in
vests all his political actions with suspicion.
1t will be observed that in his letter to
Senator VEST that Mr.. CAMPBELL shrewdly
attempts to parry the charge of revolution
airy action by citing the decision of Judge
TANEY and the action had by half dozen
other states preliminary to their admission
into the Union. The principles quoted by
Mr.. CAMPBELL and the precedents referred
to are all correct enough in themselves,
but we fail to see what application they
have to the claim of the Huron state gov
eminent. If the territory of Dakota had
chosen to organize state government pre-
liminary to asking for admission, while it
would have all unusual form of proceeding
there would have been nothing revolutionary
about it. But Dakota has not done so. A
band of individuals calling themselves the
representatives of the state government of
South Dakota are the ones vino are kicking
up the muss. There is no such territory as
South Dakota. 1t is fiction. To recog
niZe its existence would be to recognize the
right of secession in a territory a principle
that the general government is not apt to
establish in territory after so emphatically
squelching it in the states. 1t is therefore
unfair and deceptive to speak of the
South Dakota concern in connection
with the claims of Dakota proper.
Dakota is territory regularly framed and
organized as such by congressional action.
South Dakota is a mythical political organ
ization and for all practical purposes may as
well be called the territory of Timbuctoo as
to speak of it as the Dakota state or terri
torial government. The GLOBE has taken
the position that it is the duty of the fed
eral government to invest Dakota with
statehood. 1t has fulfilled all the condi-
lions which entitle it to recognition in that
respect. And that is the view which the
Democratic members of congress take of it.
We feel warranted in saying that bill to
provide for the admission of Dakota will
receive the cordial support of the Democrats
in that body. The only obstacle in the way
is the attempt of the CAMPBELL crowd to
interpose fictitious political government
in the way of Dakota's admission. They
talk and twaddle about the injustice that
is being done to Dakota when they are the
ones who are doing the injustice. If it
isn't revolutionary to set up an independent
state government within the limits of a ter
ritory without even the consent of congress
or of the people of the whole territory
then what is revolution? Mr.. CAMPBELL
and his followers are attempting to throw
the country off on false scent by insisting
that they are the people of Dakota
and that their mythical government
is the outcome of the will of the
people of Dakota. An illustration of
InlS was IOullu III tl0 JONAH interview
published in the GLOBE a few days ago.
While DOMAIN is too inconsequential to
make his opinions of any value. or to be of
influence in any direction, still his wild
screed serves to show the false attitude the
CAMPBELL government is seeking to as
sumo. 1t further illustrated the inSincerity
of the gang. For while DOMAIN speaks of
the Democrats in congress as "a gang of eX-
Confederate cattle and herd of red-handed
rebels" it is remembered that he was him
self once one of the gang who once boosted
of the loyal blood that had been spilled by
his own hands, and once We'd with BRICK
PoMERoY in the use of vituperation and
billingsgate that was heaped upon loyal
Union men. We only revert to these facts
to show that Dakota's greatest drawback is
the presence of political adventures who
are continually placing the territory before
the country in false light. Nothwith-
standing all these disadvantages we believe
that the claims of Dakota for admission
will be brought before congress in correct
light and that they will be recognized.
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