That this is the true construction I have no doubt. Now. it may be contended that the treaty between the United States and France contained a stipulation requiring the United States to incorporate the inhabitants of the Territory of Louisiana into the Union. and that it was in pursuance of this treaty obligation that those inhabitants became citizens of the United States. but it is perceived. from the very general doctrine laid down by Chief Justices Fuller and Waite that citizens in a case of ceded territory. whether acquired by conquest or cession. become ipso facto citizens of the United States. without reference to any treaty stipulation. It is not necessary in the case of a people of a ceded territory that each and every one shall take out papers of naturalization. for they become naturalized en masse by the fact of the entrance of the territory into the Union. Mr. President.
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