North Carolina Declares to dissolve the union :

An ordinance to dissolve the union between the State of North Carolina and the other States united with her, under the compact of government entitled “The Constitution oft he United States.”

   
We, the people of the State of North Carolina in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, That the ordinance adopted by the State of North Carolina in the convention of 1789, whereby the Constitution of the United States was ratified and adopted, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly ratifying and adopting amendments to the said Constitution, are hereby repealed, rescinded, and abrogated.

   We do further declare and ordain, That the union now subsisting between the State of North Carolina and the other States, under the title of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved, and that the State of North Carolina is in full possession and exercise of all those rights of sovereignty which belong and appertain to a free and independent State.

  
 Done in convention at the city of Raleigh, this 20^th day of May, in the year of our Lord 1861, and in the eighty-fifth year of the independence of said State.

Source:  

William Connery
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CIVIL WAR NORTHERN VIRGINIA 1861
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