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From information possessed by this department it is seriously to be apprehended that both Great Britain and France have designs upon California." "Cong. Olohe, 29 Cong., 1 sess., p. 360. Digitized by Google 246 The Southwestern Historical Quarterly main under its present owners but never pass into the hands of a more powerful nation." It has sometimes been held that this application of the Mon- roe Doctrine was merely a bogey used by Polk to alarm the country and justify his subsequent course i...n the eyes of the nation. Enough, it is believed, has already been said to show the falsity of such a charge. When he wrote — '^the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny. Should any portion of them, constituting an independent state, propose to unite themselves with our confederacy, this will be a question for them and for us to determine without any foreign interference"'* — Polk desired to warn England that the United States would brook no interference in case the program entrusted to Larkin in Cali- fornia was a success, and the inhabitants sought annexation to this country.
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