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  3. Committee:The House of Representatives
  4. Session: 1861-02-05 12:00:00
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The Road to Civil War

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Session 12628: 1861-02-05 12:00:00

Members from the State of Louisiana inform the House that the State of Louisiana has left the Union and that they are no longer members of the House of Representatives. The House considers the report of the Committee of Thirty-Three.

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Message from the Members of Louisiana: Ordinance of the State of Louisiana

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An ordinance to dissolve the union between the State of Lou-isiana and other States united with her, under the compact entitled "The Constitution of the United States of Amer-ica."

We, the people of the State of Louisiana, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the ordinance passed by us in convention on the 22nd day of November, in the year 1811, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America, and the amendments of said Constitution, were adopted, and all laws and ordinances by which the State of Louisiana be-came a member of the Federal Union, be, and that the union now subsisting between Louisiana and other States, under the name of the "United States of America," is hereby dis-solved.

We do further declare and ordain, that the State of Lou-isiana hereby resumes all rights and powers heretofore del-egated to the Government of the United States of America; that her citizens are absolved from all allegiance to said Government; and that she is in full possession and exer-cise of all those rights of sovereignty which appertain to a free and independent State.

We do further declare and ordain, that all rights acquired and vested under the Constitution of the United States, or any act of Congress, or treaty, or under any law of this State and not incompatible with this ordinance, shall re-main in force and have the same effect as if this ordinance had not been passed.

The undersigned hereby certified that the above ordi-nance is a true copy of the original ordinance adopted ths day by the convention of the State of Louisiana. Given under my hand and the great seal of Louisiana, at Baton Rouge, this 26th day of the month of January, in the year of our Lord, 1861.

[L. S.]

A. MOUTON,

President of the Convention.

J. THOMAS WHEAT, Secretary of the Convention.

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