The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-07-16
The ordinance Of secession.
rom the viellsburg Herald July 8.

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As matter of history, we produce
this morning, the so-calIed Ordinance of
secession, which it was supposed the
Convention of Mississippi adopted on
the 9th day of January, 1861 The fol-
lowing IS 8 copy of the celebroted doc
ument
| An ORDINANCEtO dissolve the Union
befseeen ihe State Of Mississippi and other
lSiatss united 1itk her sipder tie compact
entitled @THs Constitution Of tie UHited
States Of America.
The people ofthe State of Mississippi,
in Convention assembled, do ordain.
and declare, and it is hereby ordain-
ed and declared, as follows, to Wit
SIC. /. That all the laws and Ordi-
nances by which the said State of Mis-.
sissippi became a member of the FEEDER
al Union of the United States Of Amer
lea be, and the same are, hereby re-
pealed, and that all obligations on the
part of the said State or the people
thereof to observe the same, be with
/ drawn, and that the said State doth
hereby resume all the rights, functions
and powers which, by any Of said laws
or ordinances, were conveyed to the
Government of the United States, and
is absolved from all the obligations, re-
straints and duties incurred to the said
Federal Union, and shall from hence
forth be free, sovereign and independ-
ent State.
SEC .. That so much of the first sec
ton of the seventh article of the Con-
stitution of this State as requires mem
bers of the Legislature, and all officers,
executive and judicial, to take an oath
or affirmation to support the Constitu>
ton of the United States, be, and the
same is hereby abrOgated and an
nulled
SEC 3. That all rights acquired and
vested under the Constitution of the
United States or under any act of Con
gress passed, or treaty made, in pursu-
ance thereof, or under any law of this
State, and not incompatible with this
Ordinance, shall remain in force and
have the same effect as if this 0Fdi-
nance had not been passed
SIC. f. That the people Of the State |
Of Mississippi hereby consent to form 8
Federal Union with such Of the States |
as may have seeded or may secede |
from the Union of the United States of !
America, Upon the basis of the present |
Constitution of the said United States, |
except such parts thereof as embrace |
other portions than such seeding |
States.
Thus ordained and declared in Cons |
vention the 9th day Of January, in the |
Year of Our Lord one Thousand Eight |
Hundred and Sixty-0ne.
WILLIAM s. BARRY, President |
F A. PoPE, Secretary.
The following was the vote upon its
passage:
AYEs-Messrs. Barry, President; Al
corn, Anderson, Aldridge; Barksd ale,
Baldwin. Backstrom, Booth, Brantley, |
Brooke. Benton, Beene, Berry, Bowling, /
Bookter, Clayton, of Marshall; Clayton,
OF. Lowndes, Catching, Chalmers. Col
bert, Clapp, O. Davis, J. S Davis, Desse,
benson, Douglas, Dyer Deason, Eck-
ford, Edwards, Ellet, Fisher, Flournoy,
Fontaine, George, Glenn, Gibson, Ghol-
son, Gwin, Harris, Herring Hill, Holt,
Isom, johnson, of DeSoto, johnson, of
Jefferson; Jones, KERN, Keith, Kenne-
dy, King, Lee, Lamar, Lewis, Lewis, Ma
sor, ,McGehee, of Bolivar, ,McGehee, ,of Pa
nola, Miller, of Tunica, Miller; OF Pom
totoc, Heeley, Nelson, Orr, Patterson,
Powell, Of Cov;ngton, Powell, of Jones,
Ramsey, Roberts, Rogers, Semmes,
Smart, Sumner, Stevens, Terrell, Tyson,
Taylor, Thompson, Vaughan, Walter,
Welsh, Witty, Wilkinson, Woods, of
Kemper, Wright-84.