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The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], A political Farce — a Federal Provisional Government for North Carolina. (search)
behalf of the people of North Carolina, and acknowledging the Constitution of the United States of America as the supreme law of the land, hereby declares vacant all State offices, the incumbents of which have disqualified themselves to hold them by violating their oaths to support the Federal Constitution. 2. That the office of Governor of this Commonwealth having been vacated by the death of John W. Ellis, and by the active treason to the Union of his constitutional successor, acting Governor Clark, Marble Nash Taylor be hereby appointed and declared Provisional Governor of North Carolina. 3. That the Constitution of the State and its amendments, together with the statutes and laws thereof, as contained in the revised code put in operation January 1, 1856, be declared continued in full force; also, such subsequent acts of the General Assembly as were not adopted in contravention of the national constitution or in derogation of its authority. 4. That the ordinance of the