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Chapter 3:
Secession of Mississippi and other States
withdrawal of Senators
address of the author on taking leave of the Senate
answer to certain objections.
Mississippi was the second state to withdraw from the Union, her ordinance of secession being adopted on January 9, 1861.
She was quickly followed by Florida on the 10th, Alabama on the 11th, and, in the course of the same month, by Georgia on the 18th, and Louisiana on the 26th.
The conventions of these states (together with that of South Carolina) agreed in designating Montgomery, Alabama, as the place, and February 4th as the day, for the assembling of a congress of the seceding states, to which each state convention, acting as the direct representative of the sovereignty of the people thereof, appointed delegates.
Telegraphic intelligence of the secession of Mississippi had reached Washington some considerable time before the fact was officially communicated to me. This official knowledge I considered i
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Appendix G (search)