Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-05-09
AN ORDINANCE


 To dissolve the the union now existing
 between the State of Arkansas and tho
 other States united with her under the
 compact entitled, The Constitution of
 the United States of America"
 WHEREAS, In addition to the we'll found ed causes of complaint set forth by this convention in resolutions adopted on the 11th March, A. D. 1861, against the sec tional party now in power at Washington City, headed by Abraham Lincoln, he has in the face of resolutions passed by this convention, pledging the State of Arkansas to resist to the last extremity any attempt on the part of such power to coerce any State that had seeded from the old Union, proclaimed to the world that war should he waged against such States, until they should be eotspelled to submit to their rule, and large forces to accomplish this have by this same power been called out, and are now being marshalled to carry out this inbuman design, and to longer submit to such rule or remain in the old Union of tue United States would be disgraceful and ruinous to the State of Arkansas.
 AhNiOiOiS, WV e'ic POVl'iO VI thc pi"tO VI Arkansas in convention assembled, do here by declare and ordain, and it is hereby de- clared and ordained that the ordinance and acceptance of compact" passed and approved by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, on the 18th day of Oe- tober, A. D. 1896, whereby it was by said General Assembly ordained that. by virtue of the authority vested in said General Assembly, by the provisions of the ordi- nance adopted by the convention of delegates assembled at Little Rock, for the purpose of forming q constitution and system of go/ vernment for said State, the propositions set forth in an act complimentary to an act entitled an act for the admission of the State of Arkansas into the Union, and to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States within the same, and for other purposes were freely accepted, rati- fled and irrevocably confirmed articles of compact and union between the State of Arkansas and the United States,'' and all other laws and every other law and ordi- nance, whereby the State of Arkansas be- came member of the Federal Union be and the same are hereby in all respects and for every purpose herewith consistent re- pealed, abrogated, and fully set aside; and the union now subsisting between the State of Arkansas and the other States under the name of the United States of America is hereby forever dissolved
 And we do further hereby declare and, ordain, that the State of Arkansas here- by resumes to herself all rights and powers heretofore delegated to the government of the United States of Amerca--that her citizens are absolved from all allegiance to said government of the United States, and that she is in full possession and exercise of all the rights and sovereignty which appertain to free and independent State
 We do further ordain and declare, that all rights acquired and vested under the constitution of the United States of Ame- rica. or of any act or acts of Congress, or treaty, or undor any law of this State, and not incompatible with this ordinance, shall remain in full force and effect, in no wise altered or impared, and have the same effect as if this ordinance had not been passed.
 DAVID WALKER, President of the Con- vention and delegate from the county of Washington.
 JAMES l.. ToTTEN, Arkansas county.