Ordinances of Secession and Other Documents. 1860-1861A. Lovell, 1893 - 22 pages |
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Ordinances of Secession and Other Documents, 1860-1861 (Classic Reprint) David Franklin Houston No preview available - 2017 |
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Abraham Lincoln abrogated and annulled acquired and vested act of Congress Alabama in convention ALBERT BUSHNELL HART American History Leaflets Arkansas Articles of Confederation Assem bama Cents COLONIAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL compact entitled compact styled CONSTITUTION DES ETATS Convention assembled Declaration of Independence declare and ordain déclarons et ordonnons dissolve the Union EDWARD CHANNING Etats Unis d'Amérique execution Federal Government Federal Union Florida free and independent full possession further declare Georgia HART AND EDWARD hereby abrogated hereby declared hereby dissolved hereby repealed hereby resume hundred and eighty-eight insurrection l'Etat laws and ordinances Lord one thousand Louisiana LOVELL militia Mississippi North ordain and declare ordinance adopted ORDINANCE OF SECESSION ORDINANCE TO DISSOLVE Ordonnance political Price printed by order pursuance seceded service or labor slaveholding Slavery slaves South Carolina SOVEREIGN AND INDEPENDENT stipulation stitution Tennessee Texas thereof thousand eight hundred tion union now subsisting United vention Virginia Whereas whereby the Constitution
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Page 16 - Whereas, the laws of the United States have been for some time past, and now are, opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 13 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America,
Page 16 - Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, in virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution and the laws, have thought fit to call forth, and hereby do call forth, the militia of the several States of the Union, to the aggregate number of seventy-five thousand, in order to suppress said combinations, and to cause the laws to be duly executed.
Page 3 - AND OTHER STATES UNITED WITH HER UNDER THE COMPACT ENTITLED "THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Page 5 - His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz., New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be Free, Sovereign and Independent States...
Page 16 - The details for this object will be immediately communicated to the State authorities through the War Department. I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate, and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union and the perpetuity of popular government and to redress wrongs already long enough endured.
Page 21 - An act to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions, and to repeal the act now in force for that purpose...
Page 13 - We do further declare and ordain, That the Union now subsisting 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.
Page 3 - Declaration of the immediate causes which induce and justify the secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union.
Page 13 - We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the ordinance adopted by us, in convention, on the 23d day of May, in the year of our Lord 1788, whereby the constitution of the United States of America...