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The Virginia Secession Convention of 1861 was called in the state capital of Richmond to determine whether Virginia would secede from the United States, govern the state during a state of emergency, and write a new Constitution for Virginia, which was subsequently voted down in a referendum under the Confederate Government.
Virginia's Ordinance of Secession (enrolled bill) Text and original document from the Library of Virginia. Virginia's Ordinance of Secession (signed copies) Text and original documents from the Library of Virginia and National Archives. Texas Declaration of Causes, Feb. 2, 1861 Text of Declaration of Causes from Texas archives.
The declaration stated that the Virginia Declaration of Rights required any substantial change in the form or nature of state government to be approved by the people. Since the Virginia secession convention had been convened by the legislature, not the people, the declaration pronounced the secession convention illegal, and that all of its acts ...
Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War. (1997) ISBN 0-679-44747-4. Lebsock, Suzanne D. "A Share of Honor": Virginia Women, 1600–1945 (1984) Lewis, Virgil A. and Comstock, Jim, History and Government of West Virginia, 1973. Link, William A. Roots of Secession: Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia.
The Ordinance of Secession would not be presented to the citizens of Virginia for a vote until May 23. Others, including Carlile, insisted on immediate action to "show our loyalty to Virginia and the Union," and on May 14, he called for a resolution creating a state of New Virginia.
The second sentence in A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi acknowledged that the state’s position “is thoroughly identified ...
The Second Wheeling Convention met as agreed on June 11, 1861, and adopted "A Declaration of the People of Virginia". This document, drafted by former state senator John S. Carlile, declared that the Virginia Declaration of Rights required any substantial change in the nature or form of the state government to be approved by the people ...
The Secretary of War's proclamation included slave states in the South that had not yet declared their secession but excluded two free states on the Pacific coast (California and Oregon). At the time, a transcontinental railroad , which would have been necessary to transport troops from nation's far western regions with any sort of ease, had ...