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The Daily Dispatch: may 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], North Carolina. (search)
North Carolina. The Wilmington Journal, of Friday evening, thus sums up the action of the North Carolina State Convention: The Convention, presided over by Hon. Weldon N. Edwards, of Warren, has, as everybody knows, passed the Ordinance of Secession, and also adopted the Provisional Government of the Confederate States. The ordinances for these purposes have been signed by all the members. So far the movements of the Convention were made unanimous. In the order of procedure, the ratification of the permanent Constitution of the Confederate States ought to have come next, and we presume would have done so, had there been a certified copy of said Constitution in the possession of the Convention. Of course pamphlet or newspaper copies of that document might have been procured, but very properly these were not regarded as sufficiently authoritative to form the official basis of solemn State action in so momentous a crisis as the present. A properly attested copy will short