North Carolina
secedes
Ordinances and Resolutions Passed by the State Convention of
North Carolina. First Session in May and June, 1861 (Raleigh:
John W. Syme, Printer to the Convention, 1862).
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repealed, rescinded and abrogated.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 the
full possession and exercise of all those rights of sovereignty
which belong and appertain to a free and independent State. Ratified
the 20th day of May, 1861.
AN ORDINANCE TO RATIFY THE CONSTITUTION
OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA.
WHEREAS, On the eleventh day of March,
A. D., 1861, at Montgomery, in the State of Alabama, a Constitution
was adopted by a Congress of delegates from the States of Alabama,
Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas,
united under the name of the Confederate States of America, which
Constitution hath been ratified by each of the said States:
Now, therefore, this Convention, having
seen and considered the said Constitution, doth, in behalf of the
people of the State of North Carolina, adopt and ratify the said
Constitution and form of Government, the tenor of which appears in a
schedule hereto annexed. |
The state flag of North Carolina adopted following secession. The
dates are of the Mecklenburg Resolves and of the secession
ordinance.
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