AN ORDINANCE to dissolve the union between the State of North Carolina and
the other States united with her, under the compact of government entitled "The
Constitution of the United States."
We, the people of the State of North Carolina in convention assembled, do
declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, That the ordinance
adopted by the State of North Carolina in the convention of 1789, whereby the
Constitution of the United States was ratified and adopted, and also all acts
and parts of acts of the General Assembly ratifying and adopting amendments to
the said Constitution, are hereby repealed, rescinded, and abrogated.
We do further declare and ordain, That the union now subsisting between the
State of North Carolina and the other States, under the title of the United
States of America, is hereby dissolved, and that the State of North Carolina is
in full possession and exercise of all those rights of sovereignty which belong
and appertain to a free and independent State.
Done in convention at the city of Raleigh, this the 20th day of May, in the
year of our Lord 1861, and in the eighty-fifth year of the independence of said
State.
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An act declaring the political ties heretofore existing between the State of
Missouri and the United States of America dissolved.
Whereas the Government of the United States, in the possession and under the
control of a sectional party, has wantonly violated the compact originally made
between said Government and the State of Missouri, by invading with hostile
armies the soil of the State, attacking and making prisoners the militia while
legally assembled under the State laws, forcibly occupying the State capitol,
and attempting through the instrumentality of domestic traitors to usurp the
State government, seizing and destroying private property, and murdering with
fiendish malignity peaceable citizens, men, women, and children, together with
other acts of atrocity, indicating a deep-settled hostility toward the people of
Missouri and their institutions; and
Whereas the present Administration of the Government of the United States has
utterly ignored the Constitution, subverted the Government as constructed and
intended by its makers, and established a despotic and arbitrary power instead
thereof: Now, therefore,
Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of Missouri, That all
political ties of every character new existing between the Government of the
United States of America and the people and government of the State of Missouri
are hereby dissolved, and the State of Missouri, resuming the sovereignty
granted by compact to the said United States upon admission of said State into
the Federal Union, does again take its place as a free and independent republic
amongst the nations of the earth.
This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
Approved by the Missouri Legislature on October 31, 1861.
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