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The proclamation by Governor Ellis to have a special session of the North Carolina General Assembly was in response to President Lincoln calling on all the states to provide troops to the federal Army, for the purpose of enforcing the federal demands on the State of South Carolina. The State of North Carolina did not want to secede from the Union but saw no alternative to what was perceived as unconstitutional demands by a federal government that was in total disregard to the rights of individual states. North Carolina refused to provide any troops to President Lincoln. The special session of the General Assembly resulted in this Ordinance of Secession and was unanimously adopted in the state capitol of Raleigh on May 20th, 1861.
Ordinance Of Secession of North Carolina
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acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly ratifying and adopting amendments to the said Constitution, are hereby repealed, rescinded and abrogated.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 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.
Ordinance Of Secession of North Carolina
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 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.