Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window). We do further declare and ordain, That the State of Louisiana hereby resumes all rights and powers heretofore delegated to the Government of the United States of America; that her citizens are absolved from all allegiance to said Government; and that she is in full possession and exercise of all those rights of sovereignty which appertain to a free and independent State. ________________________________________TEXAS ________________________________________KENTUCKY Secession Declarations Do Not Prove the War was over Slavery States and people of the Northern section, is a political wrong of so insulting from West Virginia University in 2012 and her B.A. First. The secession convention, recalled in special session, met again in the Old State House in Little Rock on May 6. The new Republican Party was a purely Northern party with a platform that was anti-slavery. [State of Texas Declaration of Secession] - The Portal to Texas History Other Southern states, including Arkansas, watched and waited. We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, That the ordinance adopted by us in convention on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America," is hereby dissolved. The Richmond Daily Dispatch reported: The forts contained 78,000 stand of arms, 1,500 boxes of powder, 300,000 rounds of musket cartridges, and other munitions of war.. Alabamainfohub.com provides information through various online resources and not liable to any kind of error or oversight. ________________________________________MISSISSIPPI Elsewhere, the Delaware legislature quickly, firmly rejected secession despite targeted lobbying from states intending to secede. The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. Sent to referendum 6 May 1861 by the legislature, and approved by the voters by a vote of 104,471 to 47,183 on 8 June 1861. Articles of secession, adopted December 24, 1860. Alabamainfohub.com acknowledges that the information provided on this website is for information purposes only.