It is frequently said. If you do not desire to be deprived of those I rights of citizenship. why do you go to the Territories I This is as ungracious as illogical. Because a system of government is bad we should not be precluded front agitating for a cnge. and as the dovelopment. prosperity. and progress of theTerri tories add to te wedth and prosperity of a common country. our people should be encouraged in opening up and developing the great national domain. which is but in the infancy of the development of its almost boundless resources. and should not be discouraged from engaging ia such a work by the thought that they will be punished for emigrating to and developing the great West by loss of the rights which every true American citizen believes to be his proudest heritage. The nature of the public domain open to settlement has changed since the country from which the great States of the Northwest and Southwest was formed has been settled and occupied. The rich prairies settled so rapidly. that the territorial governments were in fact temporary. and but a means of organizing tire fit government. and of establishing the basis upon which they should be clothed with statehood.
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