Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-01-06
TRYING HOURS BEFORE US.
But if We Il Right and We are Men,
We will not Abdicate our Manhood =
shall We Undo the History OF tne
Past2-An Appeal to Dakotaians,


To the Press n Dakotaaan.
De Smet, Dakota, January LIST, 1856
In May, 1874, Lieutenant Grant wa
riding Gu horseback from Jefferson ban
RACKS to White Haven TO see Miss Julil
Dent. He unexpectedly found the strear
the Grsvois-which he had to eros
full to the top of the banks and the cnr
rent rapid. There was no bridge from
its source to its mouth. He stopped, b,
says, a moment to consider, and adds
"One OF my snperstitions had Away
beer when | started 10 go anywhere, o
to do anything, not to turn back or sto,
until the thing intended was accom-
plished." He plunged i'll and horse ant
man were swept down stream, but h,
kept his horse headed for the other banl
and soon reached it. 1t was at that visi
that Miss Dent promised to be his wife
This superstition" about not turning
back
GAVE THE UNITED TATEs A LEADER
who crushed the rebellion.
The msjority in the house of represen
tatives at Washington are apparent,
inclined to avoid making the refusal IL
admit Dakota this winter a party cues
ton. They know our cause
Is SO just that II they
as a party deny us admission, the cpl
taph of a dethroned democracy viii.
soon be written by the people OF The
union. That majority and the minority
IN the senate will nevertheless search
diligently for a protest for our exclusion
One who loves fine craftsmanship and
has the faith of a John Ruskin in the
dignity of man, may naturally cry out
that the congress of a great and free
people cannot face an official census
showing 100000 people, and
AGAINST ALL LAW, L RIGHT
dealing. deny us admission; but bite
experience teaches that party supremac,
is the highest aim of the average con
gresham. We have not time to mourn
yer the degeneracy of the times. A les
son on morals will not get Dakota int
tue union. The federal constitution il
a grant of certain powers, and ono O
these is the provision Cart. 4, Sec. 8
that "new states may be admitted
by the congress into the union" Con
gress cannot create ! state. All power
not delegated to the federal government
are reserved to the states or the people
We have done our part except in on
particular. We have created a state, bu
through Difference to that sensitive fee
lug which has grown up in the countr
since the great civil wal upon the ques
tlon of the supremacy OF tue Unite,
States, We have lett our state in q con
dition of
SUSPENDED ANIMATION
by the provision of the last section c
the constitution by which we agree,
not to begin state life until congress
admits us into the union. The write
was n of the first among the conserva
tive members of the constitutional con
yention to participate in the plan sug
gested by that most excellent man, MI
a Haines, to draft a section whicl
should effectually disarm all enemie
and, as we supposed, absolutely silenc
the fool who was ready to bark himsel
hoarse with the cry of revolution"
That section is an eff ectual injunction
We can not fairly find a road through il
MIR. Halnes does not draft law for men t
crawl through. If Dakota ia not admit
ted this time we must submit to the i'm
position over us of such judges of on
few courts as may be sent to us iron
Mississippi, South Carolina or New Yori
and to continue to abide their pleasur
while
THEY IGNORE THE TERMS
of court fixed by our territorial legisla
ture and spend their time IN the east O
wherever they will, while citizens of Dis
kota lie in Jail here awaiting the conve
nience of the judge to set a time fo
their trial; we must bear all that a powe
outside of ourselves chooses to impos
upon us, or We must repeal that restrain
ing order IN the constitution and
| START OUR STATE GOVERNMENT.
The thirty-eight states in the unto
have two million n hundred thousan
square miles; the area of the Unite
States outside of these thirty-eigl
states is one million five hundred thor
sand square miles. Three.sevenths,-
almost one-half of the whole.-~is sti
outside of the union of states. TT
battle Dakota must fight is the bait
of all the territories. AS men wi
love u country-not Dakota alone, b,
our whole c~ountry-we shall fail in dut
if we finch in our work at any point u
til the right Of our state Is recognized /
congress. There may be
TRYING HOURS BEFORE US,
but the sole inquiry is "are we right
Ii we are men we cannot entertain
thought of fear. To vacillate or tn
from the cause we have espoused Is
go through life conscious of having q
Dictated manhood and to deserve t
contempt of our fellow citizens of t
states from which we have moved. Y
are allied by the sacred ties of blood q
marriage to the whole people, especia
those of the western and northweste
! states. Their hearts are with us q
when we take our rights we do exac