The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-01-24
ALABAMA SECESSION OgDHN.
ANCE,
Augusta, Ga, Jan, IL.

Augusta, Ga, Jan, IL.
| The foil owing passed the Alabama STATE
| Convention to day:
San Ordinance to dissolve the Union be-
tween the State of Alabama and other State,
united under the compact and style of the Uni
ted States of America:
WHEREAS, The election of Lincoln anC
Hamln by a sectional party avowedIy hostil,
to the domestic institutions and peace and Sc
curity Of the people of the State of Alabama
following upon the heels of many and danger
Gus attractions of the Cons ttuton of e Uni
ted States, by many of the States and people O.
the Northern States, is political wong of SC
insulting character as to justify the people Of
the State of Alabama in the adoption Of prompt
aud decided measures for their future peace
and security. Therefore.
Be it declared and ordained by the people Of
Alabama, in convention assembled, that the
State of Alabama, now withdraws from the
Union known as the United States of America
and hencetorth ceases to be one of the said
United States sand is and of right ought
TO be sovereign indepenpent State:
Second section, And be it further declared
and ordained by the people of the State of Ala
bama IN Convention assembled, that all DOW.
ers over the territory of the said State, and ov-
er the people thereof, heretofore delegated tc
the government Of the United States be and
they are, hereby withdrawn from the said Gov.
eminent and hereby resumed and vested to
the people Of the State of Alabama
And as 1t the desire and purpose Of the peo-
pie OF Alabama to meet the slave holding states
OF the South who approve such purpose, in
to frame provisional or a permanent
Government upon the principles of the Govern
ment Of the United States, be it also resolved
by the people of Alabama in Convention as
sembled, that the people OF Tie States of Della
ware, Mary land, Virginia, North Carolina.
South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi,
Louisiana Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Ken
lucky and Missouri be and they are hereby
invited to meet the State of Alabama by their
delegates in Convention on the 4th of Febru-
AIRY next, in Montgo merry, Alabama, for the pur-
pose OF consultation with those Stat es as to the
most eiiectual mode of securing concerted &C
ton IN what ever measures may be deemed
most desirable for the common peace and secu>
rty.
And be II further resolved that the President
ofthe Convention be and he is hereby instruct.
ed to transmit copy of the foregoing pream-
bic, ordinance and resolutions to the several
states named in the said resolutions.
D9ne by the people of Alabama in Conven-
ton assembled at Montgomery this It'll day Of
Jannary, 1861"
Tie preamble, ordinance and resolutions
were duOptCu by ayes OI- nays 81.
Ehe GVnsPiFacy TO Seize sEe Capital,
he Washington correspondence of the Gin
cinnati Ga=stte, under date of the 18th inst.
says:
IA has been ascertained 10 day, in manner
that leaves no room whatever for doubt, that it
is be palpose Of the South to seize The Capital
az SOME tiao prior TO, or or March 4th. This,
II true, Is a revival of various repUrts, but the
lnfoi nation is now III such shape that Nortn-
e n members of Congress consid r it their duty
to look the danger fairly III the face. and adopt
such measures as may be within their reach.
secret society exists throughou' the South,
tor Tins purpose, and the sccessiuni5ts, having
control OF the telegraph and the railroad, they
can pour in large force upon the Capitol at
Short noiice, and with scarcely poss bity of
their movements being reported to the authori-
ties here IN advance. The Federal troops now
in TINS neighborhood or to arrive, will not tits be-
deved, prove sufficient to prevent the proposed
attack, and parties who are now looking into
the matter, place little reliance in the military
of the District.
The matter has assumed such serious chars
acier and there being no doubt about the mag
nltade and progress of the plot, the facts viii
be torma ~ aid before Gen. Scott TINS afternoon
AS matters now stand, the public property here
is not projected at ALL and few hundred men
could take possession Of every public building
in the city
The fact that Southern members Of Congress
have been sending home their wives and daugh
ers Until Jet1 nolo remain, is regarded as indies
alive that conflict is expected There is not
now over one hundred lady boafdaYs in the three
principal hotels At Willard there are not,
exclusive OF transient visitors, over Il dozen la
lies, and the number there does not altogether
exceed thirty.
The sece4sonists have upqueatonaby made
Up heir minds to force the scheme at all hez'
aids