425] FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE I9TH CENTURY I27 



nulled by the outcome of the Civil War, the separation of 

 West Virginia on the basis of popular vote has continued."" 

 An important consideration in the case of the acquisition 

 of the Danish West Indies is the refusal of the American 

 State Department to give official sanction to the plebiscite 

 held in the territories transferred from Danish to United 

 States sovereignty.^" 



110 See below, pp. 167-168. 



1" The international legal aspect of this refusal is discussea in 

 chapter viii, pp. 172-173. 



