Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-04-29
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THB ELEcTIoN FoR NEMBERs OF coNGREss
ABRoGATRD AID AsNuLIED-THE STATE
sPtUNgRD INTO AHARcHI@yoT1SG 10 BE
DoYR OUTSIDE rHE STATE, ~ ASYBopY
AND EVERYBODY, SO FlAT AZ oRDtNAScE
or SECESSION SHALL BE oARRIED-TRE
MOST HrGH-HAHpID AID INFANors usuR-
PATTON THE WORLD ETzR SAW.
(FFom the baltimore Americana
We append the Ordinance of Secession
Of Virginia. passed on the 18th inst, aud
which bus just been made public. Accom-
panying the document is a long schedule,
SettiBB forth the time aud manner OF hold
ing-a poll for its ratification by the people.
a poll will be opened in each military
c4nn OF Virginia volunteers, WhVtLIGr in
or out of the State, and the voters there
suffered 10 vote. This will 7be beside the
regular election precincts. The election
for members of Congress for this State to
the House of Representatives. of the Con-
gress Of the United States, requited BY
law toll be held on the 4ts Thursday in
Mhy next, is suspended and prohibited uu-
I'll otherwise ordained by the Convention.
AS oRDlSAScE.
TO Repeal ks ratification Of. fhs ConsttutIon
Of tie United States Of AMetIeG, By ths
A1EAte LSSNt4e40r eSsths - SGSSSStE Use A'te
rights and pol0erS granted Hndsr said, Con-
sttufioD:
The people of virginia, in their ratii-
cation of the Constitution Of the United
States Of America, adopted by them in
Convention. on the 25tt day Of Juue, in
the year or our Lord ono thousand seven
hundred aud eighty eight. buving declared
that the powers granted them under the
said Constitution were derived from the
people of the United Suites, aud might b.
resumed whensoeVer-tI the same should be
perverted to their injury and opprts-
sion, aud tue Federal Government having
perverted said powers, not only to the in
jury of the people OF Virginiai but to the.
oppression of the Southern slavcholdiuK
States.
Now, therefore, we, the people of Trr-
ginia, do declare aud OrdAin that the Or1li-
nance adopted By the people OF this State
in Convention, on the twenty nth dAv of
June, in the year Of cur Lord one thousand
seven hundred and seVenty-eight, whereby
the Constitution OF the United States of
America was ratified, aud all acts of the
General Assembly of this State, ratiryimg
orNdopting amendments to said COnstitu.
ton, are herehy.repeAled and abrogatcd;
that the union between the State of Vir-
Ainta and the other States under the Con-
stitutton aforesaid, is hereby dissolved,
and that the State of VirRinit is in the full
possession and exercise of ull the rights of
sovereignty which belong to free and in
dependent State. And theydo further de-
clare 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
iority of the votes of the people of this
State, cNstnto poll to be taken thereon on
the fourth Thursday in SIay next, in pur.
suance of schedule hereafter to be en-
acted.
Done in Convention, ia the city of Rich
mond, on the seventeenth day of April, in
the year of our Lord 0ne thousand eight
hundred and sixty-une, aud in the eighty
fifth year of the Commonwealth of Yir-
ginia. JSo. L. EUBAxK,
[Atrue copy.l Stc'y of Convention.