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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.
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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.
A New Hampshire man holds a sign advocating for secession during the 2012 presidential election. In the context of the United States, secession primarily refers to the voluntary withdrawal of one or more states from the Union that constitutes the United States; but may loosely refer to leaving a state or territory to form a separate territory or new state, or to the severing of an area from a ...
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 ...
The 1861 Wheeling Convention was an assembly of Southern Unionist delegates from the northwestern counties of Virginia, aimed at repealing the Ordinance of Secession, which had been approved by referendum, subject to a vote.
When Virginia declared its secession in April 1861, Robert E. Lee chose to follow his home state, despite his desire for the country to remain intact and an offer of a senior Union command. Lee's biographer, Douglas S. Freeman , asserts that the army received its final name from Lee when he issued orders assuming command on June 1, 1862. [ 138 ]
Another factor leading to secession and the formation of the Confederacy was the development of white Southern nationalism in the preceding decades. [7] The primary reason for the North to reject secession was to preserve the Union, a cause based on American nationalism. [8] Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election.