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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore)

Doc. 77. North Carolina resolutions, adopted by the Convention in Hyde Co., N. C., Oct. 12, 1861. The following resolutions were read and passed unanimously and without discussion: By a meeting of citizens of North Carolina, held in Hyde County, Saturday, Oct. 12, 1861, Resolved, That we do hereby voluntarily and de loyal people of North Carolina. Statement of grievances. The following is the report of the Committee appointed by a meeting of the citizens of Hyde County, North Carolina, to draw up a statement of grievances and a formal declaration of independence: Appealing to that sacred right of protest and resistance which is inhs which our action devolves upon us, and reverently invoking the aid and guidance of Almighty God, we pledge to each other, for the maintenance of this solemn compact, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. Marble Nash Taylor, Caleb B. Stowe, William O'Neil. Hatteras, Hyde County, North Carolina, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 1861.

Doc. 77. North Carolina resolutions, adopted by the Convention in Hyde Co., N. C., Oct. 12, 1861. The following resolutions were read and passed unanimously and without discussion: By a meeting of citizens of North Carolina, held in Hyde County, Saturday, Oct. 12, 1861, Resolved, That we do hereby voluntarily and deliberately reaffirm our loyalty to the Government of the United States, and express our unalterable attachment to that Constitution which is the basis of the Union founded by our fathers. Resolved, That while, as a law-abiding people, we accept the Constitution and laws of the Commonwealth of North Carolina, as they were prior to the treasonable and revolutionary innovations of the conspirators against the Union in this State, we do, nevertheless, utterly repudiate, reject, and disavow all acts of any Convention or Legislature done in contravention of our primary and permanent allegiance to the Federal Government, or in derogation of its authority, as imp

. 12, 1861, Resolved, That we do hereby voluntarily and deliberately reaffirm our loyalty to the Government of the United States, and express our unalterable attachment to that Constitution which is the basis of the Union founded by our fathers. constituted, who have transferred the duty they owed to the Union to the spurious Government self-styled the Confederate States of America. They have vacated, by the fact of their treason, the positions to which they were elevated by a confiding brolina, deliberately and solemnly proclaim our independence of the spurious Government designating itself the Confederate States of America, and the revolutionary and treasonable dynasty which now usurps the governing power of our own State. We reprimes against heaven and humanity; and we now and hereby reaffirm our unalienable allegiance to the Government of the United States, and resume all those elements and parts of sovereignty which belong, in subordination to the National Constitution,

Doc. 77. North Carolina resolutions, adopted by the Convention in Hyde Co., N. C., Oct. 12, 1861. The following reand without discussion: By a meeting of citizens of North Carolina, held in Hyde County, Saturday, Oct. 12, 1861, Resoccept the Constitution and laws of the Commonwealth of North Carolina, as they were prior to the treasonable and revolutionano obedience to the commands of the Acting Governor of North Carolina, nor to any other public officers, however validly cona Provisional State Government for the loyal people of North Carolina. Statement of grievances. The following is thency of wrong, we do hereby, on behalf of the people of North Carolina, deliberately and solemnly proclaim our independence oaitors alike to the Federal Union and to the people of North Carolina; we disclaim and disavow all participation or acquiesc attitude of open hostility to that Constitution which North Carolina has formally and definitely ratified and accepted as t

Doc. 77. North Carolina resolutions, adopted by the Convention in Hyde Co., N. C., Oct. 12, 1861. The following resolutions were read and passed unanimously and without discussion: By a meeting of citizens of North Carolina, held in Hyde County, Saturday, Oct. 12, 1861, Resolved, That we do hereby voluntarily and deliberately reaffirm our loyalty to the Government of the United States, and express our unalterable attachment to that Constitution which is the basis of the Union founded by our fathers. Resolved, That while, as a law-abiding people, we accept the Constitution and laws of the Commonwealth of North Carolina, as they were prior to the treasonable and revolutionary innovations of the conspirators against the Union in this State, we do, nevertheless, utterly repudiate, reject, and disavow all acts of any Convention or Legislature done in contravention of our primary and permanent allegiance to the Federal Government, or in derogation of its authority, as imp

ated, and in some instances openly proclaimed,their purpose to confer official honors and emoluments and peculiar privileges upon a certain set of men separate from the community: to restrict the right of suffrage to a few, and to substitute a life tenure of public office for the term fixed by law. They have practically annulled the cardinal axiom of popular government and initial declaration of our Bill of Rights, that all political power is vested in and derived from the people only. Wherefore, from these tyrants and public enemies we now dissever ourselves, socially and politically, forever. And with a full and lively sense of the responsibilities which our action devolves upon us, and reverently invoking the aid and guidance of Almighty God, we pledge to each other, for the maintenance of this solemn compact, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. Marble Nash Taylor, Caleb B. Stowe, William O'Neil. Hatteras, Hyde County, North Carolina, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 1861.

ated, and in some instances openly proclaimed,their purpose to confer official honors and emoluments and peculiar privileges upon a certain set of men separate from the community: to restrict the right of suffrage to a few, and to substitute a life tenure of public office for the term fixed by law. They have practically annulled the cardinal axiom of popular government and initial declaration of our Bill of Rights, that all political power is vested in and derived from the people only. Wherefore, from these tyrants and public enemies we now dissever ourselves, socially and politically, forever. And with a full and lively sense of the responsibilities which our action devolves upon us, and reverently invoking the aid and guidance of Almighty God, we pledge to each other, for the maintenance of this solemn compact, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. Marble Nash Taylor, Caleb B. Stowe, William O'Neil. Hatteras, Hyde County, North Carolina, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 1861.

ated, and in some instances openly proclaimed,their purpose to confer official honors and emoluments and peculiar privileges upon a certain set of men separate from the community: to restrict the right of suffrage to a few, and to substitute a life tenure of public office for the term fixed by law. They have practically annulled the cardinal axiom of popular government and initial declaration of our Bill of Rights, that all political power is vested in and derived from the people only. Wherefore, from these tyrants and public enemies we now dissever ourselves, socially and politically, forever. And with a full and lively sense of the responsibilities which our action devolves upon us, and reverently invoking the aid and guidance of Almighty God, we pledge to each other, for the maintenance of this solemn compact, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. Marble Nash Taylor, Caleb B. Stowe, William O'Neil. Hatteras, Hyde County, North Carolina, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 1861.

Doc. 77. North Carolina resolutions, adopted by the Convention in Hyde Co., N. C., Oct. 12, 1861. The following resolutions were read and passed unanimously and without discussion: By a meeting of citizens of North Carolina, held in Hyde County, Saturday, Oct. 12, 1861, Resolved, That we do hereby voluntarily and deliberately reaffirm our loyalty to the Government of the United States, and express our unalterable attachment to that Constitution which is the basis of the Union foSaturday, Oct. 12, 1861, Resolved, That we do hereby voluntarily and deliberately reaffirm our loyalty to the Government of the United States, and express our unalterable attachment to that Constitution which is the basis of the Union founded by our fathers. Resolved, That while, as a law-abiding people, we accept the Constitution and laws of the Commonwealth of North Carolina, as they were prior to the treasonable and revolutionary innovations of the conspirators against the Union in this State, we do, nevertheless, utterly repudiate, reject, and disavow all acts of any Convention or Legislature done in contravention of our primary and permanent allegiance to the Federal Government, or in derogation of its authority, as im

gated, and in some instances openly proclaimed,their purpose to confer official honors and emoluments and peculiar privileges upon a certain set of men separate from the community: to restrict the right of suffrage to a few, and to substitute a life tenure of public office for the term fixed by law. They have practically annulled the cardinal axiom of popular government and initial declaration of our Bill of Rights, that all political power is vested in and derived from the people only. Wherefore, from these tyrants and public enemies we now dissever ourselves, socially and politically, forever. And with a full and lively sense of the responsibilities which our action devolves upon us, and reverently invoking the aid and guidance of Almighty God, we pledge to each other, for the maintenance of this solemn compact, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. Marble Nash Taylor, Caleb B. Stowe, William O'Neil. Hatteras, Hyde County, North Carolina, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 1861.