Posted on 05/06/2011 8:56:38 AM PDT by central_va
Whereas, In addition to the well founded causes of complaint set forth by this convention, in reselutions adopted on the 11th 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 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 seceded from the old Union, proclaimed to the world that war should be waged 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 marshalled to carry out this inhuman design, 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 assembled, do hereby declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared 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 October, A. D., 1836, whereby it was by said General Assembly ordained that, by virtue of the authority vested in said General Assembly, by the provisions of the ordinance adopted by the convention of delegates assembled at Little Rock, for the purpose of forming a constitution and system of government for said state, the propositions set forth in "an act supplementary 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, ratified 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 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a member of the Federal Union, be, and the same are hereby in all respects and for every purpose herewith consistent, repealed, abrogated and fully set aside; and the union now subsisting between the State of Arkansas and the other states, under the name of the United States of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 Stales of Americathat 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 a free and independent 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 incompatible with this ordinance, shall remain in full force and effect, in no wise altered or impaired, and have the same effect as if this ordinance had not been passed.
The ordinances generally did not list reasons for secession.
http://www.constitution.org/csa/ordinances_secession.htm
Four states gave reasons for secession in “Declaration of Causes” documents.
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/reasons.html
The word slave or some variation appears 82 times over the four documents
>The word slave or slavery DOES NOT APPEAR in this ordinance, I guess that was an oversight. /sarcasm. <
Doesn’t matter. A libtard will see what libtards want to see = racism.
Major General Patrick R. Cleburne
Saw that headline and was about to start packing to move back to Arkansas! Then I saw it was dated 1861.
I too share your feeling of disappointment.
Copperhead ping.
Copperhead ping.
The blue star above ARKANSAS represents being a member of the Confederate States of America.
Whose Pious Ministrations To Our Wounded Soldiers
Soothed The Last Hours Of Those Who Died For The
Object Of Their Tenderest Love; Whose Domestic
Labors Contributed Much To Supply The Wants Of
Our Defenders In The Field; Whose Jealous Faith
In Our Cause Shone A Guilding Star, Undimmed By The
Darkest Clouds Of War; Whose Fortitude Sustained
Them Under All The Privations To Which They Were
Subjected; And Whose Patriotism Will Teach Their
Sons To Emulate The Deeds Of Their Sires.
Whose Pious Ministrations To Our Wounded Soldiers
Soothed The Last Hours Of Those Who Died For The
Object Of Their Tenderest Love; Whose Domestic
Labors Contributed Much To Supply The Wants Of
Our Defenders In The Field; Whose Jealous Faith
In Our Cause Shone A Guilding Star, Undimmed By The
Darkest Clouds Of War; Whose Fortitude Sustained
Them Under All The Privations To Which They Were
Subjected; And Whose Patriotism Will Teach Their
Sons To Emulate The Deeds Of Their Sires.
After the Battle of New Madrid, Grant sent some Yankee cavalry over to teach them the error of their ways. But did little to dampen their ardor, the region went the way of the Balkans and remained a bloody mess until end of the war.
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Secession Timeline various sources |
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[Although very late in the war Lee wanted freedom offered to any of the slaves who would agree to fight for the Confederacy, practically no one was stupid enough to fall for that. In any case, Lee was definitely not fighting to end slavery, instead writing that black folks are better off in bondage than they were free in Africa, and regardless, slavery will be around until Providence decides, and who are we to second guess that? And the only reason the masters beat their slaves is because of the abolitionists.] Robert E. Lee letter -- "...There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil. It is idle to expatiate on its disadvantages. I think it is a greater evil to the white than to the colored race. While my feelings are strongly enlisted in behalf of the latter, my sympathies are more deeply engaged for the former. The blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally, physically, and socially. The painful discipline they are undergoing is necessary for their further instruction as a race, and will prepare them, I hope, for better things. How long their servitude may be necessary is known and ordered by a merciful Providence. Their emancipation will sooner result from the mild and melting influences of Christianity than from the storm and tempest of fiery controversy. This influence, though slow, is sure. The doctrines and miracles of our Saviour have required nearly two thousand years to convert but a small portion of the human race, and even among Christian nations what gross errors still exist! While we see the course of the final abolition of human slavery is still onward, and give it the aid of our prayers, let us leave the progress as well as the results in the hands of Him who, chooses to work by slow influences, and with whom a thousand years are but as a single day. Although the abolitionist must know this, must know that he has neither the right nor the power of operating, except by moral means; that to benefit the slave he must not excite angry feelings in the master..." |
December 27, 1856 |
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Platform of the Alabama Democracy -- the first Dixiecrats wanted to be able to expand slavery into the territories. It was precisely the issue of slavery that drove secession -- and talk about "sovereignty" pertained to restrictions on slavery's expansion into the territories. | January 1860 |
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Abraham Lincoln nominated by Republican Party | May 18, 1860 |
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Abraham Lincoln elected | November 6, 1860 |
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Robert Toombs, Speech to the Georgia Legislature -- "...In 1790 we had less than eight hundred thousand slaves. Under our mild and humane administration of the system they have increased above four millions. The country has expanded to meet this growing want, and Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri, have received this increasing tide of African labor; before the end of this century, at precisely the same rate of increase, the Africans among us in a subordinate condition will amount to eleven millions of persons. What shall be done with them? We must expand or perish. We are constrained by an inexorable necessity to accept expansion or extermination. Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years. All just reasoning, all past history, condemn the fallacy. The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death." | November 13, 1860 |
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Alexander H. Stephens -- "...The first question that presents itself is, shall the people of Georgia secede from the Union in consequence of the election of Mr. Lincoln to the Presidency of the United States? My countrymen, I tell you frankly, candidly, and earnestly, that I do not think that they ought. In my judgment, the election of no man, constitutionally chosen to that high office, is sufficient cause to justify any State to separate from the Union. It ought to stand by and aid still in maintaining the Constitution of the country. To make a point of resistance to the Government, to withdraw from it because any man has been elected, would put us in the wrong. We are pledged to maintain the Constitution." | November 14, 1860 |
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South Carolina | December 20, 1860 |
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Mississippi | January 9, 1861 |
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Florida | January 10, 1861 |
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Alabama | January 11, 1861 |
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Georgia | January 19, 1861 |
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Louisiana | January 26, 1861 |
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Texas | February 23, 1861 |
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Abraham Lincoln sworn in as President of the United States |
March 4, 1861 |
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Arizona territory | March 16, 1861 |
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CSA Vice President Alexander H. Stephens, Cornerstone speech -- "...last, not least. The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution -- African slavery as it exists amongst us -- the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the 'rock upon which the old Union would split.' He was right. What was conjecture with him, is now a realized fact." | March 21, 1861 |
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Virginia | adopted April 17,1861 ratified by voters May 23, 1861 |
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Arkansas | May 6, 1861 |
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North Carolina | May 20, 1861 |
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Tennessee | adopted May 6, 1861 ratified June 8, 1861 |
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West Virginia declares for the Union | June 19, 1861 |
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Missouri | October 31, 1861 |
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"Convention of the People of Kentucky" | November 20, 1861 |
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