Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-05-28
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what More can be Done in Behalf of
Division than has Already Been
Done by the People OF Dakot

What More can be Done in Behalf OF
Division than has Already Been
Done by the People OF Dakot
Tohe Press and DakotGiGa.
There has re,ently appeared in the
public priuts of Yankson un articleldis-
Gu ssing the probable action of the house
OF representatives o" the Springer bill
for ths sinisSion OF DAKOTA rs "a whole
and to its autnor L desire t, address a
few remarks through your columns.
He very pertInen;ly and truthfully
say, that for ne,rly twenty years the
first and most earnest prayer of the peo-
pie of Dakota. OF ali sections, has
besn for the erection of two
territories out of thu oue-that the
people will not be satisfied witho ut 1T,
and it is not at all likely that anything
else will ba accepted" In the closing
paragraph of the ga ne article he also
argues that ths state movement dnder
and that all u energies bs devoted tc
securing division"
Now in all candor will you permit me
to ask what moro the psopls of Dakota
can do than has already been done tow
ard SECURING division" Have they
not exhausted every means at their COM
mand to secure that much desired end :?
Have they not earnestly ps5itloned and
prayed, ard begged for division for
nearly twenty years past? Has not
every political convention, made up of
delegates fresh from the people of the
whole territory, endorsed or demanded
division for the past fifteen years? Has
not every territorial legislature for the
last fifteen or twenty years prayed aud
memoralized congress for division of
the territory ? Have not thu people of
south Dakota, at their own expense,
ratified at the polls two state constitu-
tions, with notable unanimity. thereby
demanding diyision--the first of the
two demands being made up by the
people without distinction of party ?
Have not the people of Dakota indica-
ted their ready consent that the Harri-
son bill. if passed, should be modified
by a proviso that the question of divi-
sion should be submitted to tho vote of
the people Of the whole territory, and
the bill not to become a law unless a
majority of the people of the whole ter.
rItory ratified and endorsed the ques-
ton of division? Have we not declared
to congress through our delegate and
other Wise that we could be satisfied
they would not grant us admission r
Thus far, nearly twenty years, have
"all our energies been devoted to secur.
ing DIVISION" and yet this cry of the
people for rellet has been ignored and
scoffed ut by both political parties, un-
til forboarauce has ceased to be q virtue.
La Gods name, what more can our PEG.
pie do than what they have already
done to secure division? Must
We now sit supinely down and submit
to this intolerable ignoring of cur rights
as American citizsns, and aba adon The
fruits Of our labor? With the results
of our twenty years efforts for division
staring us In the face, what assurance
have We that congress will oyer come tc
our relief, and grant us either division Of
statehood? Ii it is revolution
for the people to set up a state govern
ment, agreeable to al; the forms of Law
and precedent, and respectfully ash
congress for admission into the upior
under such government, to the end tina,
"the union may be more perfect. justice
established, domestic tranquility in
sured, the common defence provided for
the general welfare promoted and tht
blessings of liberty secured to us ane
our posterity, in accordance with th.
corner stone upon which our forefatherl
bullded the federal constitution in 1857
then W e are proud to be classed as
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