AN ORDINANCE To dissolve the Union between the State of Alabama and other states united under the compact style " The Constitution of the United States of America." _____________________________ Whereas, the election of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin to the offices of President of the United States of America,by a sectional party,avonedly hostile to thedomestic institutions and to the peace and security of the people of the State of Alabama,preceded by many anddanderous infractions of the Constition of the United States, by manyof the States and people of the Northern section, is a political wrong of so insulting andmenacing a character as to justify the People of the State of Alabama in Convention assembled, That the State of Alabama in Convention assembled, That the State of Alabama nowwithdraws, and is hereby withdrawn from the Union known as " The United States of America,"and henceforth ceases to the one of said United States, and is and of right ought to be aSovereign and Independent State. Sec.2. Be it further declared and ordained by the people of the State of Alabama inConvention assembled, "That all the powers over the Territory of said State and over thepeople thereof,heretofore delegate to the Government of the United States of America,be andthey are hereby withdrawn from the government and are hereby resumed and vested in thePeople of the State of Alabama_____And as it is the desire and purpose of the People ofAlabama to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 principal of theConstitution 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,NorthCarolina, 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 the Convention, on the Fourth day of FebruaryA.D. 1864, at the City of Montgomery, in the State of Alabama, for the porpose of consultingwith each other as to the most effectual mode od securing converted and harmonious action in whatever measures maybe deemed most desirable for are common peace and seurity. And be further resolved, That the President of this Convention, be and is hereby instructed to transmit forthwith a copy of the foregoing Preamble,Ordinance and Resolutionsto the Governors of the several States named in said resolutions_______Done by the Peopleof the State of Alabama, in Convention assembled, Montgomery, on the Eleventh day ofJanuary, A.D. 1861.William M. Brooks W.L.Yancey Eli W. Starke John W. Inzer President of the Convention A.A. Coleman Albert Crumpler H.E. Owens J.D. Webb Jere Clemens M.G. Slaughter Tho. H. Herndon George Taylor N.D. JohnsonA.J Curtis S.E. Catterlin John B Leonard Joseph SilverAlpheus Baker David P. Lewis James S Williamson James F. BaileyW.H. Davis James S Clark j McClanahan Julius C.B. Mitchell John Cochran Lyman Gibbons John Tyler Morgan WM S EarnestJohn W. L. Daniel jAMES W. Crawford Jas G Hawkins David B CreechLewis M. Stone William H. Barnes J P Timberlake of Jackson DeWitt Clinton DavisE S Dargan WM. S. Phillips Gappa T. Yelverton Richard Jackson WoodJohn Bragg George Rives Sr Thomas Tipton Smith JEFN BufordH.G. Humphries James g. Gilchrist John Green SrGeo. A. Ketchum Archibald Rhea Barclay JM Foster O.R. Blue G.C. WHATLEY Davis William A.WoodJames L. Sheffield Dane t RYAN John P. Ralls MD Arthur Campbell BeardJames Ferguson Dowdell J.M. Crook W E Clarke of Marengo Franklin K. Beck Saml Henderson Ralph O HowardSam. J. Bolling OS Jewett George Forrester Jno McPherson John R. Coffey Henry M. GrayA.P. Love J.A. Henderson A true copy fromB H Baker the originalGeo. D. Shortridge R.H. BrittanThomas Hill Watts Sec. of StateA G Horn Secretary of the Convention Frank L. Smith, of Montgomery Assistant Secretary of the Convention Lith.by A.Hoen & Co Balto.
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