The Secession Convention, of Alabama, votes to secede from the voluntary Union (YEA, 69; NAY 31) over the issue of slavery:
Whereas, the election of Abraham Lincoln … to the office[] of [P]resident … of the United States of America, by a sectional party, avowedly hostile to the domestic institutions [slavery] … therefore:
Be it declared … That the State of Alabama now … hereby withdrawn from the Union … and of right ought to be a Sovereign and Independent State.
And as it is the desire and purpose of the people of Alabama to meet the slaveholding States of the South, who may approve such purpose, in order to frame a provisional as well as permanent Government upon the principles of the Constitution of the United States. [emphasis added]
[updated 1/18/2025]
Subsequent Events:
Authority:
unanimous Declaration (of Independence), Paragraph 6
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Article X of Amendment
ccc-2point0.com/constitution-for-the-United-states
References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 282.
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 152.
Reconstruction era – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_era
the Alabama Secession Convention – We secede![orig]
plaintalkhistory.com/read-their-reasons/author/secedeal/
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