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."
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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 the
domestic 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 many
of the States and people of the Northern section, is a political wrong of so insulting and
menacing 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 now
withdraws, and is hereby withdrawn from the Union known as " The United States of America,"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 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 the powers over the Territory of said State and over the
people thereof,heretofore delegate to the Government of the United States of America,be and
they are hereby withdrawn from the government and are hereby resumed and vested in the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 principal 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 the Convention, on the Fourth day of February
A.D. 1864, at the City of Montgomery, in the State of Alabama, for the porpose of consulting
with 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 Resolutions
to the Governors of the several States named in said resolutions_______Done by the People
of the State of Alabama, in Convention assembled, Montgomery, on the Eleventh day of
January, 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. Johnson
A.J Curtis S.E. Catterlin John B Leonard Joseph Silver
Alpheus Baker David P. Lewis James S Williamson James F. Bailey
W.H. Davis James S Clark j McClanahan Julius C.B. Mitchell
John Cochran Lyman Gibbons John Tyler Morgan WM S Earnest
John W. L. Daniel jAMES W. Crawford Jas G Hawkins David B Creech
Lewis M. Stone William H. Barnes J P Timberlake of Jackson DeWitt Clinton Davis
E S Dargan WM. S. Phillips Gappa T. Yelverton Richard Jackson Wood
John Bragg George Rives Sr Thomas Tipton Smith JEFN Buford
H.G. Humphries James g. Gilchrist John Green Sr
Geo. A. Ketchum Archibald Rhea Barclay JM Foster
O.R. Blue G.C. WHATLEY Davis William A.Wood
James L. Sheffield Dane t RYAN John P. Ralls MD Arthur Campbell Beard
James Ferguson Dowdell J.M. Crook W E Clarke of Marengo
Franklin K. Beck Saml Henderson Ralph O Howard
Sam. J. Bolling OS Jewett George Forrester
Jno McPherson John R. Coffey Henry M. Gray
A.P. Love
J.A. Henderson A true copy from
B H Baker the original
Geo. D. Shortridge R.H. Brittan
Thomas Hill Watts Sec. of State
A G Horn Secretary of the Convention Frank L. Smith, of Montgomery
Assistant Secretary of the Convention
Lith.by A.Hoen & Co Balto.
