The log cabin Democrat., 1911-05-06
ARKANSAS Seeded
so YEARS AGO TODAY
TEXT OF ORDINANCE ADOPTED
BY CONVENTION AT LIT
TIE ROCK.

Fifty years ago today, says the Lit
convention of Arkansas met in the
hall of the house of Representatives of
the old capitol-later the senate
chamber-and adopted, at 10 minutes
past 4 O'Clock in the afternoon, this
ordinance ito dissolve the union now
existing between the state of Arkan-
sas and the other states united with
her under the compact entitled The
Constitution of the United States of
America
Whereas. In addition to the we'll
founded causes of complaint set forth
by this convention, in resolutions
adopted on the 18th of March, A. d.,
1861. against the sectional party now
in power at Washington City, headed
by Abraham Lincoln, he has, in the
face of resolutions passed by this con-
vention, pledging the state of Arkan-
sas to resist to the last extremity any
attempt on the part of such power to
coerce any state that had seeded
from from the old union, proclaimed
to the world that war should be wag
ed against such states, until they
should be compelled to submit to their
rule, and large forces to accomplish
this have, by this same power, been
called out, and are now being mar
shalled to carry out this inhuman de-
sign, and to longer submit to such
rule, or remain in the old union of the
United States, would be disgraceful
and ruinous to the state of Arkansas.
Therefore, We, the people of the
state of Arkansas, in convention as
sembled, do hereby declare and or
dain, and it is hereby declared and or
dained, that the ordinance and accep-
lance of compact" passed and approx
ed by the general assembly of the
state of Arkansas on the 18th day of
October, A. D., 1865, whereby it was
by said general assembly ordained
that, by virtue of the authority vested
in said general assembly, by the pro-
visions of an ordinance adopted by the
convention of delegates assembled at
Little Rock for the purpose of forming
a constitution and system of govern
toto
set forth in IAN act supplementary to
an act entitled an act for the admis-
sion of the state of Arkansas into the
union, and to provide for the due eX-
ecution of the laws of the United
States within the same, and for other
purposes, were freely accepted, rati-
fled and irrevocably confirmed arti-
Giles of compact and union between the
state of Arkansas and the United
States and all other laws, and every
other law and ordinance whereby the
state of Arkansas became a 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
hereby resumes to herself all rights
and powers heretofore delegated to
the government of the United States
of America, that her citizens are alb
solved from all allegiance to said gov
eminent of the United States, and
that she is in full possession and eX-
ercise of all the rights and sovereign
ty which appertain to free and indie
pendent state.
We do further ordain and declare
that all rights acquired and vested
under the constitution of the United
States of America or of any act or
acts of congress, or treaty, or under
any law of this state, and not incom-
patible with this ordinance, shall re-
main in full force and effect, in no
wise altered or impaired, and have
the same effect as if this ordinance
had not been passed.
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