Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-06-22

Al tAo OFIlSOtA loVatSs oUuhtCs
1t is because of the fear that suoh o
scheme as admission as a whole may be
attempted, and that for lack of organized
opposition, it may gain dangerous
strength, that the state league was or
ganized. Its purpose is to secure di-
vision east and west and admission of
the south half under the Sioux
Falls constitution. This is
the precise object and the whole object
The provision in the pledge that we
will work to secure the election of pub
lie officers who favor this object is only
one leading and very important means
to be employed to secure the object in
view-so important o means as seemed
to justify its specification.
The league is not pledged to or inter-
ested in the repeal OF section thirty-two
neither does it oppose those who desire
such repeal. 1t is not in favor of starting
the state government; neither does it
oppose those who so desire. The league,
by organizing the steady, permanent
friends of G1yision and the Sioux Falls
constitution is only acting as conser-
vatiye agent in preserving what has
been done and in aiding the COM
pletion of the work. For fifteen years
the people of all Dakota have beer
preparing for. division. They have
duplicated their public buildings, estab.
fishing one of each class in north Dakota
and one in south Dakota. The laws
enacted at Bismarck by the last legisla-
ture alone refer at least eight times IN
eight distinct acts, to the matter Of
division as something that is contsm-
plated. The people as whole have
| long contemplated division and they
have the grit to fight it out on that line
| ii it takes eli summer or dozen
summers. We do not want admission
SO badly as to take admission as q
whole. We are right and must anchor
ourselves to the right and stay there.
In establishing ourselves upon this
principle we shall be much stronger il
organized. A thoueand men fighting
pell NELL. each on his own hook, like &c
many Indiana, have nothing like the
power of thousand men in compact
column or line of battle where each feels
the touch OF the elbow of his comrade
and all move forward as one man for Q
common purpose. 1t may be sometime
i I-(possibly sometime, we hope not
before Dakota is d state
in the union. Ii long
delay ahall occur, formidable numbe
OF men will come to the surface wh'
with long drawn sigh, will say, "it is o
no use, we can never be divided; it il
better to be admitted come way thai
not at all. better accept an enabling 40
for the whole" When the men who nov
lie low come to the front with this cry
we must be ready to meet them.
i IL 1862 many of us remember that. th
cause of the union looked blue, an
, thousands upon thousands of men wer
discouraged and ready to give up, 6
/ home and let the black curse of SLAYER
, spread its perpetual pail over million
OF helpless black men, and see the slav
driver continue to crack his whip owe
I the heads Of women aud children, o.
: under the stars and stripes of th
{ American flag; DO not those timid, white
Q livered men who in 1869 would hay
Y l oh mr. q
q they think of the consequences if th
@ country had then yielded to their fears
r say we must be preparing to mee
o these, admission as whole men whe
a they arise 1--WE have a nucleus of thel
n now. If we are satisfied that tho peopl
q of Dakota in their efforts OF the pa
u fifteen years looking to division hay
y been right, we ought never, anywhsr
Q give such men encouragement in the
j; course. Men who will abandon ii
1t fight and fly before the enemy are nt
4. reasonable when considering the qua
|e ficatlons of man for an office in Dakot
,s that we shall know exactly where
1t stands upon the question OF division
j. it is our public officers in the count
a. and in the Legislature who largely inf
ence public opinion they may do us
1t great service or great injury.
10 The objects of the state league are
is de6nitely declared by its constitute
Of and we are in this part of Dakota
a generally agreed upon them that
9 seems it is entitled to our support
to there is in fact good reason for
lie existence of league. The only Dakc
no bill which has been agreed upon and
ut ported by q majority of the commit
or on territories in the house of represen
d. tivss at Washington is the. Springer
n" for admission as whole. With I'll
no tangible fact upon the record, is th
to not occasion tor organization Of I
u friends of division?
l.n The diffusion OF information relati
he to the rights of the people and the LEI
ne limitations upon congress will be
he service. The league can aid in this VIZ
to and fortlfy the people against ey'
ak. scheme for admission as whole.
is- 1t was one of your own strong men
all Yankton who, when the state league '
,ur organized at Sioux Falls on the 6tt
,pt last May, moved that men and WON
ia alike be eligible to memberUhip: an,
4 r yyss unanimOusly apreSd to- That