Louisiana
AN ORDINANCE to dissolve the union between the State of Louisiana and other
States united with her under the compact entitled "The Constitution of the
United States of America."
We, the people of the State of Louisiana, in convention assembled, do declare
and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, That the ordinance passed by
us in convention on the 22d day of November, in the year eighteen hundred and
eleven, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America and the
amendments of the said Constitution were adopted, and all laws and ordinances by
which the State of Louisiana became a member of the Federal Union, be, and the
same are hereby, repealed and abrogated; and that the union now subsisting
between Louisiana and other States under the name of "The United States of
America" is hereby dissolved.
We do further declare and ordain, That the State of Louisiana hereby resumes
all rights and powers heretofore delegated to the Government of the United
States of America; that her citizens are absolved from all allegiance to said
Government; and that she is in full possession and exercise of all those rights
of sovereignty which appertain to a free and independent State.
We do further declare and ordain, That all rights acquired and vested under
the Constitution of the United States, or any act of Congress, or treaty, or
under any law of this State, and not incompatible with this ordinance, shall
remain in force and have the same effect as if this ordinance had not been
passed.
Adopted in convention at Baton Rouge this 26th day of January, 1861.
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Alabama
An Ordinance to dissolve the union between the State of Alabama and the other
States united under the compact styled "The Constitution of the United States of
America"
Whereas, the election of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin to the offices
of president and vice-president of the United States of America, by a sectional
party, avowedly hostile to the domestic institutions and to the peace and
security of the people of the State of Alabama, preceded by many and dangerous
infractions of the constitution of the United States by many of the States and
people of the Northern section, is a political wrong of so insulting and
manacing a character as to justify the people of the State of Alabama in the
adoption of prompt and decided measures for their future peace and security,
therefore:
Be it declared and ordained by the people of the State of Alabama, in
Convention assembled, That the State of Alabama now withdraws, and is hereby
withdrawn from the Union known as "the United States of America," and henceforth
ceases to be one of said United States, and is, and of right ought to be a
Sovereign and Independent State.
Sec 2. Be it further declared and ordained by the people of the State of
Alabama in Convention assembled, That all powers over the Territory of said
State, and over the people thereof, heretofore delegated to the Government of
the United States of America, be and they are hereby withdrawn from said
Government, and are hereby resumed and vested in the people of the State of
Alabama. And as it is the desire and purpose of the people of Alabama to meet
the slaveholding States of the South, who may approve such purpose, in order to
frame a provisional as well as permanent Government upon the principles of the
Constitution of the United States,
Be it resolved by the people of Alabama in Convention assembled, That the
people of the States of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee,
Kentucky and Missouri, be and are hereby invited to meet the people of the State
of Alabama, by their Delegates, in Convention, on the 4th day of February, A.D.,
1861, at the city of Montgomery, in the State of Alabama, for the purpose of
consulting with each other as to the most effectual mode of securing concerted
and harmonious action in whatever measures may be deemed most desirable for our
common peace and security.
And be it further resolved, That the President of this Convention, be and is
hereby instructed to transmit forthwith a copy of the foregoing Preamble,
Ordinance, and Resolutions to the Governors of the several States named in said
resolutions.
Done by the people of the State of Alabama, in Convention assembled, at Montgomery, on this, the eleventh day of January, A.D. 1861.
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Georgia
We the people of the State of Georgia in Convention assembled do declare and
ordain and it is hereby declared and ordained that the ordinance adopted by the
State of Georgia in convention on the 2nd day of Jany. in the year of our Lord
seventeen hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the constitution of the United
States of America was assented to, ratified and adopted, and also all acts and
parts of acts of the general assembly of this State, ratifying and adopting
amendments to said constitution, are hereby repealed, rescinded and abrogated.
We do further declare and ordain that the union now existing between the
State of Georgia and other States under the name of the United States of America
is hereby dissolved, and that the State of Georgia is in full possession and
exercise of all those rights of sovereignty which belong and appertain to a free
and independent State.
Passed January 19, 1861.
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