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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Langdon Cheves, in the Southern Convention: At Nashville, Tennessee, November 14, 1850
California did not belong to them, any more than it did to the Grand Turk. It was conquered by the people of the United States, and ceded to the people of the United States in sovereignty. The sovereignty thus ceded was vested either in the United States, as a consolidated body, or in the States collectively, as independent sovereigns. If the former, the population of California could not budge an inch, except under the authority of the government of the United States, which had all the powers of an absolute sovereign over them. 'if the latter, then the like powers were vested in the States, under' whose acquiescence the government of the Union could control them, as was done in the case of Louisiana. If this Senator be right, as to the power of the popula tion, they could have re-annexed the territory to Mexico, 'instead of the United States. 'why not? According to him, they were not under the control of the United States, or any other sovereign.
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