I believe. a single one. but to all appearances they are intelligent. they are patriotic. they wish the good of the country. they are eiridently intelligent men. and all Republicans from whom I have .quoted. They all belong to this paradise of Dakota. this country which the Senator from Connecticut says is in such a deplorable state of vassalage. horrible to think of. unsuited to be inhabited- by any civilized man in a Territorial form of government. Yet with a rapidity that is marvelous and phenomenal. immigrants rush in wildly. earnestly. anxiously. and put their necks inthe halter and perish by the oppressions of the Federal Government. When the president of that convention took his seat he made this statement. and the records of Congress sustain him: The first real effort. however. that was made to secure the division of the Territory was made in January. 1882. I wish the Senator from Iowa were in his seat that lie might hear this: A mass convention was held at Sioux Falls. largely attended by represenative naen.
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