Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-05-02
Virginia Ordinances.

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ginia Convention, together with the aeon
vention between Virginia and the Confed
crate States"
An Ordinance to Repeal the Ratification
ofhe Constitution of the United State
of america, ly the State Of Virginia
and to resume all the rights and poTer
granted ander said Constitution.
The people of Virginia, in their ratifca
ton of the Constitution of the United States
of America, adopted by them in Conven
ton, on the twenty fifth day of June, in th'
year of our Lord one thousand seven hun
dred and eighty. eight, having declared tha
the powers granted under the Constitution
were derived from the people Of the United
States, and might be resumed whensoeve
the same should be perverted to their inju
ry and oppression, and the Federal Govern
ment having perverted said powers, not on
ly to the injury of the people of Virginia
but to the oppression of the Southern slave
holding States.
Now, therefore, We, the people of Virginia
do declare and ordain that the Ordinance
adopted by the people of this State, in Con
veution, on the twenty. fifth day Of June, il
the year of our Lord one thousand sever
hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the
Constitution of the United States of Ameri
ca was rati6ed-and all Acts of the Genera
Assembly of this State ratifying or adopting
amendments to said Constitution here.
by repealed and abrogated that the Union
between the State of Virginia and the 9th.
er States under the Constitution aforesaid,
is hereby dissolved, and that the State oi
Virginia is in the full possession and exer'
else of all the rights of sovereignty which
belong and appertaiu to free and indepen'
dent State. And they do further declare
that the said Constitution of the United
States of America is no longer binding on
any of the citizens of this State.
This Ordinance shall take effect and be
an Act of this day when ratified by ma
jority of the votes of the people of this State,
cast at poll to be taken thereon on the
fourth Thursday in May next, in pursuance
of schedule hereafter to be enacted.
Done in Convention, in the city of Rich
mond, on the seventeenth day of April, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty one, and in the eighty
fifth year of the Commonwealth of Vir'
ginia.
A true copy, JOHN l. EUBANK,
Secretary of Convention.
TThe "schedule" referred to provides
that the election for qualification" or Gre
lection" of the ordinance of secession shall
be on the fourth Thursday in May, the re-
turns to be made in the usual way, and the
election for members of Congress, which by
law is held on that day, is suspended unit
ordered. Those who may be engaged IN
the military service of the State may vote
at their encsmpment, whether within the
limits of the State or not.
An Ordinance for tie adoption Of the Con-
stttution Of tie Provisional Gorernneen
ofMe Confederate States Of An'crtca.
We, the delegates OF tho people of Vir
gipia, in Convention assembled, solemnly
impressed by the perils which surround
the Commonwealth, aud appealing to the
Searcher of hearts for the rectitude of oul
intentions in assuming the grave response
bility of this act, do, by this Ordinance
adopt and rat!ty the Constitution OF the
Provisional Government Of the Confede
rate States of America, ordained AND
establised at Montgomery, Alabama, or
the eighth day of February, eighteen hun
dred and sixty.one provided that this or
dipance shall cease to have any legal opera
tion or effect, if the people Of this Common
wealth, upon the vote directed to be taker
on the Ordinance of Secession passed By
this Convention, Oh the 18th day of April
eighteen hundred and sixty.one, shall re
ject the same. A true copy,
JOHN L. EUBANK, Secretary.
Gonueation betyeen the Commonwealth O