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The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
s follows: An Ordinance dissolving all political connection now existing between the State of Virginia and other States composing the American Union, and establishing the separate independence of the former. We the people of the State of Virginia, in Convention assembled, having been called together to consider the present distracted and unhappy relations existing between the slaveholgranted thereby remains with them and at their will." Now, therefore, we the people of the State of Virginia, conscious of the right, and hoping under God to maintain it, do declare and ordain, and iabrogated. We do further declare and ordain that the Union now subsisting between the State of Virginia and other States, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved, and that the State of Virginia is in the full possession and exercise of all those rights of sovereignty which belong and appertain to a free and independent State. We do further declare and ordain