The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-04-19
DAVIS ON DAKOTA.
The Minnesota Senator Delivers the
Greatest Speech Yet Made
Upon That Topic.

The Minnesota Senator Delivers the
Greatest Speech Yet Made>
Upon That Topic.
Senator Davis, Of Minnesota, made q
great speech in iavor of tho admission Of
Dakota as O state, and the senators on.
the floor, especially the Republicans, gath
cred around MI. Davis and gave him close
attention. Upon several law points Senator
Edmunds showed great interest in the adj
dress, and helped the senator from Minnesota
with several suggestions. The speech is con-
sidered by members Of the senate as one of
the best ever delivered on the floor, and con-
CALCULATIONS flowed in upon the senator
from Minnesota In great numbers at the
close of his speech. It was known to be his
maiden effort in any extended way and
therefore was listened to by the people in
the galleries and upon the floor with some
curiosity. In his reply to Senator Butler Of
South Carolina he so wrought up that gen.
tleman that he was hardly able to collect
himself. Mr.. Davis said:
Dakota became a territory on the I'd day
OF March, 1861, when states which have op-
posed her admission were seeding from the
Union. Those states reassumed their inter-
rupted relations with little delay, but for
years this great Northern commonwealth,
for purely party purposes, has been denied
appear, demanding rights which reason can
not gainsay, or pretext evade, with decent
piausability-rights to which they are en-
titled by treaty stipulations between this ma
>tion and a foreign power; by compact De-
tween the original states, entered into be-
frrn fh0 0nncfTfY1ffNn NY0G Gnnfn ovid
which by many statutes has been since CON-
firmed, applied and extended as q guaranty
Of statehood, over regions Of the West, of the
Southwest and on the Pacific coast From
these domains states have come into being
and have been admitted in reoog-
the treaty and the compact This
equities more imperative ever than these
legal rights. In 1903 Napoleon Bonaparte
ferson was president of the United States.
Each OF these men was the child of de-
mocracy, mi they were the most PRESIDENT
statesmen of that time. Each had foreseen
the world-grasping policy of England, and
had foretoid its persistent processes, which
have ever since and are now in course of
fulhlment The hollow truce which followed
the treaty OF Amtens was about to be broken
by wars which eventually crushed France
and applied the torch to the public buildings
and archives Of the capital OF the United
States In contemplation Of this struggle
these chief magistrates of the only republics
then existing negotiated q treaty by which
the United States acquired from France
onies had wrested from dreatsbHfsain by the
war Of the Revolution: Thissdonaaia is now
Louisiana. Arkansas, Iowa, aIlQfs minnesota
west of the Mississippi river, Kansas,
Nebraska, the Indian Territory, part of
Wyoming and Dakota.
Mr.. Davis said, replying to the senator
from South Carolina that the two United
States senators coming here represented but
1000 voters In Southern Dakota. He
tain counties lying southeast apd southwest
of the Potomac river a great party had been
wiped out and moved away like a summer
cottage. Senator Davis then proceeded to
read the election returns from several
Southern districts, showing the number of
districts represented. Among others he
showed that the representative from the
First Arkansas district had received 6,O92
votes, with no opposition. In the Fifth dis
trict the representative received7 ,464 votes,
with no opposition. In Georgia. in the
FIRST district, the representative had re-
ceived 1904 against. II opposition; in the
Second district the representative had re-
ce1ved 2,411 votes. 10 opposition;
in the Third district the representa-
UlvO uHu IGCS1t0O l,lOf, Will uO OppOkl-
tion; in the Fourth district there were 1900
votes cast, against $50 in opposion; in the
Fifth district. 1900, with no opposition; in
the Sixth district, 1,722. no opposition; in
the Eighth district, 2,287 against. 55 scat
tering; in the Ninth district, 2,455, with IL
opposition. In the State of Louisiana Mr..
Blanchard had received 1,744 votes, with no
opposition; in the Second district the repre-
sentative had received $40, with no oppo-
sition; in the Seventh district the representa-
tive has received 4. sos, with 6 scattering.
The same condition of things existed in
had been elected by 1000 to 5000 votes
without opposition. And yet the senator
from South Carolina has seen fit to ~criucise
the fact that but IL, 900 votes had been cast
for delegates to the constitutional convcn-
ton which had formed this constitution.
J." HIS CONCLUSIONS.
Mr.. Davis closed bis speech as follows: >
Enough, and more than enough, has been
thus adduced on these questions, and it
stand established:
First-That the ordinance of 1887. ex-
tended as it was after the adoption of the
federal constitution YER regions not affected
by it's provisions, and also re-enocted as to
garded as comforting upon the people Of a
territory the right to adopt q constitution
and TO apply for admission into the Union.
Second-That the stipulations of the treaty
with France have been regarded in several
instances as comforting the same right, and
that the treaty with Spain was so regarded
in the case of Florida. -
'Third-That many states have formed their
constitutions and ave been admitted with
out enabling acte, and the objection that
they thus proceeded was not perceived by
Washington, was directly contrary to the
opinion of Jackson. and was distinctly re-
futed by Madison. Macon, Benton, Clay,
Buchanan, John Quincy Adams and by many
other statesmen less eminent. !
Fourth-That the people OF some OF these
states have thus proceeded, after repeated
denials OF their petitions for the passage Of
enabling acts.
Nfth-That in some instances the adoption
been required, and that the question Of
boundaries has been adjusted as proposed by
the present bill. {G
It follows from all this that there never
was any consistent pracrice on this subject
What other excuses remain for ~postponing
this ng-delayed act Of justice? This course
of evasion, quibbling, pretext and denial has
error. Never in the history OF this govern
ment has such a commonwealth knocked,
and in vain, at the doors Of theU Union; never
has the equity Of any people been SO shame
fully doWn-trodden. On account of griev-
ances much the same our ancestors rebeiled.
On account of grievances less than this.
though much the same and committed by
the same party and for the same purpose,
the Injustice done Kansas shocked the popu-
lar conscience and converged upon its per-
petrators the condemnation OF the world.
On account Of oppression much the same
for home government denied. for the impo-
sition Of rulers alien to the soil who govern
with Ireland, hold meetings, pass resolu-
lions and contribute money. with self-sufd-