Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1861-05-01
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A PROCLAMATION OF THE GOVERNOR.

a fhOCAAWA AAVAS " 49, g.
ri. Convention of the Commonwealth Of Virginia
having adopted, on the 18th day Of ApSi, feoi, an
ordinances ito repeal The ratification ct the Consti-
tuition of the United Seaes e A"er's oy the State
0.,nteSnodar s.id Csnstitutsa" md by the SEIZED.
Sie thereto snnsxed required polls to b opened for
The ratification Or rejection 81 the same by the peo-
Ma Of ibis State On tho 4t Thursday in May next:
Now. therefore, I, Jeha lstcher, Governor of the
Commonwealth Of ykginia, do hereby proclaim that
the annexedfs an aathentio copy Of said Ordinance
and schedule and that all officers designated there
in areequired - conform to its provisions in every
respect 49,
- Given under my hand, IS Governor,
!, Il and under the seal Of the Commonwealth,
at Richmond, this oath day of April, 1861,
~ and the S5th year Of the Commonwealth.
JOHN LETCHER
By the Governor:
GEORGE W. MuNroRD,
Secretary Of the Commonwealth. -.
AN ORDINANCE.
To rspsal tie Ratification Of the Constitution Of
the United States Of Amsreca, BY tho State Of
Virginia. and to resume all the rights and PoO-
era grsatsd under said Cdnstitution.
The people Of Virgins, in their ratification Of the
Constitution Of the United States of America adopt
ed by them in Convention, on tbe twenty fifth day
of june, ia the year Of our Lord one thousand sew
en- huadred and eighty having declared that
the powers granted under the Constitution were de-
rived from the people of the United States, and
might. be resumed whatsoever the same should be
perverted to their injury and oppression, and the
Federal Government having perverted said powers,
not only to the Injury of the people Of Virginia but
to the oppression Of the Southern slaveholding
States.
Now, therefore, we the people Of Virginia, do de-
clare and ordaa that the Ordinance adopted by the
people Of this State in Convention on the twenty
fifth day of June in the year Of our Lord one thou
sand seven hundred and eighty eight whereby the
Constitution of the United States of America was
rat6ed-and all acts of the General ASSEMBLY OF
this State ratifying adopting amendments to said
Coas:itution-are hereby repealed and abrogated;
that the Union between the State of Virginia and
the other States under the Constitution under the
Constitution aforesaid is hereby dissolved and that
the State of Virginia is in the full possession and ex
ercse Of all the rights Of sovereignty which belong
and appertain to free and independent 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 Odinance shall take effect and be an act of
this day when ratified by majority 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 Richmond 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
Virginia
A true Copy. JSo L. EusANK,
Secretary of Convention.