|
|
GENEALOGICAL NOTES AND ANECDOTES John Dennis Stell: Texas Ordinance of Secession An Ordinance:
|
||||||
| Whereas, | ||||||
| the Federal Government has failed to accomplish the purposes of the compact of union between these States, in giving protection either to the persons of our people upon an exposed frontier, or to the property of our citizens; and, whereas, the action of the Northern States of the Union is violative of the compact between the States and the guarantees of the Constitution; and whereas the recent developments in Federal affairs, make it evident that the power of the Federal Government is sought to be made a weapon with which to strike down the interests and prosperity of the people of Texas and her Sister slaveholding States, instead of permitting it to be, as was intended, our shield against outrage and aggression: | ||||||
Therefore, |
||||||
| Section 1 | ||||||
| We, the People of the State of Texas, by Delegates in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, that the Ordinance adopted by our Convention of Delegates, on the Fourth day of July, A.D. 1845, and afterwards ratified by us, under which the Republic of Texas was admitted into Union with other States and became a party to the compact styled "The Constitution of the United States of America" be, and is hereby repealed and annulled; That all the powers, which by said compact were delegated by Texas to the Federal Government, are revoked and resumed; That Texas is of right absolved from all restraints and obligations incurred by said compact, and is a separate Sovereign State, and that her citizens and people are absolved from all allegiance to the United States, or the Government thereof. | ||||||
| Section 2 | ||||||
| This ordinance shall be submitted to the people of Texas for ratification or rejection by the qualified voters thereof, on the 23rd day of February 1861, and unless rejected by a majority of the votes cast, shall take effect and be in force on and after the 2nd day of March, A.D. 1861. Provided, that in the Representative District of El Paso, said election may be held on the 19th day of February, A.D. 1861. | ||||||
Done by the people of the State of Texas in Convention assembled at Austin, this the First day of February A.D. 1861. |
||||||
[Image
credit: Texas State Library, Austin, Texas]
| Column
1 O. M.
Roberts, Presdt. |
Column
2 Charles
Leander Cleveland |
Column
3 Wm. P.
Hardeman |
| Column
4 Jesse
Marshall |
Column
5 William
M. Peck |
Column
6 William
H. Stewart of Gonz. |
| _____________________________________________________
Mr. Lyman Hardeman has graciously
furnished permission to reproduce this list of
signatories which can also be viewed at The Texas Ordinance of Secession, a Web page hosted at Lone
Star Junction of which
he is the editor. |
||
| RETURN: John Dennis
Stell: The Texas Secession Convention RETURN: John Dennis Stell: Address to the People of Texas RETURN: Antecedents and Descendants of Michael Stell (1683 - ABT 1706) |
||
| This web site is always
under construction. For entries preceded by
an asterisk (*), further information is forthcoming. Persons wishing to contribute information to
this web site, or who wish to make inquiries, may do so
by addressing their email to:
In your initial message to this web site, please do not send attachments with the email. Because of spam [unsolicited commercial email], viruses, and internet pornography, some email domains are blocked. If your message to this web site is returned as undeliverable or seems not to have been delivered, please obtain a free email account at Hotmail or Yahoo! and send your message from there. No messages sent to this web site through Hotmail or Yahoo! will ever be blocked. In order to maintain security in data communications, the pages on this Web site are best viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer enabled for Javascript. Some of the pages on this Web site are rather large. Please allow them time for loading. As necessary, please reload. |
||
| This Web site was created 11 November 1998. | ||
