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The Daily Dispatch: January 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], House of Delegates. (search)
ential of her Southern sisters — had induced his State to confer with her in the present emergency.--Alabama had adopted the course of separate State action, and withdrawn from the Federal Union on the 11th inst. Secession was a constitutional right — the result of the right of self-government, involving the right to change the Government when it ceased to answer the ends for which it was formed or become oppressive. The right of secession was proclaimed and established by the Revolution of 1776. The right of self-government was first asserted in the Declaration of Independence. Alabama relied on that declaration and on the construction placed upon it by each of the thirteen Colonies — that they were sovereign States. They were admitted to be sovereign States by the mother country in the treaty of peace which followed the Revolution. These sources exhibited the proofs of the absolute sovereignty of all the thirteen original States. They adopted the articles of Confederation which<