Excerpt from Land Titles in California: Speech of Mr. Gwin of California, in Reply to Mr. Benton, in Senate, Thursday, January 2, 1851 Mr. President, when Was Calilbmia settled? About the time of the commencement of our Revolution. I speak of Upper Califoi'nia, not the' peninsula, which was settled long before that day, But I Speak of that California which is now Ours. It Was settled centempbraneously with the breaking out of our Revolution, about contemporaneously with the settlement of Kentucky. New, eu pose a case which mi ht be analogues: suppose. Kentuc y had either just now een acquired by as by cession, or that she had joined as as Teias did, or that she had been caged to us by some 'fore' power. In either case suppose any Powei' should an ertake to enforce upon Kentucky what we now prbpose to undertake to enforce upon California, requiring every citizen to'go before a tribunal and make good his title to his land, and then go before another tribunal and make it good there, and after that make him come befoi'e the Sn preme, Court of the United States, and if he did not make it good in all three cases, take away his land and give it to the public. Suppose We undertake to do such a thing as that in Kentucky. Sir, we would have a revolt in which the men of Kentucky would quit these United States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.