The nonpartisan (constitutionalist) provisional Confederate Congress declares war on the united States.

       [restored 3/19/2022]

       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, the Secession Convention of Arkansas votes to secede from the compulsory Union (YEA, 65; NAY, 5): 

       … [President] Abraham Lincoln [of the united States] … has … proclaimed to the world that war should be waged against such [S]tates, until they should be compelled to … remain in the old Union of the [u]nited States, would be disgraceful and ruinous to the State of Arkansas.

       Therefore, we the people of the State of Arkansas … that the … 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 America—that 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.

       [updated 2/1/2025]