Upset with Commander-in-Chief Abraham Lincoln, of the united States, for having manipulated the Independent Republic of South Carolina into firing on Fort Sumter, North Carolina secedes from the Union:
We, the people of the State of North Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, That the ordinance adopted by the State of North Carolina in the Convention of 1789, whereby the Constitution of the United States was ratified and adopted, and also, all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly, ratifying and adopting amendments to the said Constitution, are hereby repealed, rescinded and abrogated.
We do further declare and ordain, That the union now subsisting between the State of North Carolina and the other States under the title of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved, and that the State of North Carolina is in the full possession and exercise of all those rights of sovereignty which belong and appertain to a free and independent State.
[restored 2/1/2025]
Democratic (constitutionalist) Governor Beriah Magoffin, of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, proclaims his State’s neutrality in the War of Federal Aggression.
[restored 2/1/2025]
Subsequent Events:
Authority:
unanimous Declaration (of Independence), Paragraph 6
ccc-2point0.com/unanimous-declaration-of-independence
Kentucky Constitution of 1850, Article II, Section 35; Article III, Section 8
www.wordservice.org/State_Constitutions/usa1040.htm
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), 284.
North Carolina. Convention (1861-1862). Ordinances and Resolutions Passed by the State Convention of North Carolina, 1861-62
docsouth.unc.edu/imls/ncconven/ncconven.html#nccon3
Reconstruction era – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_era
Current U.s. National Debt:
