...Four years ago and more, an ACT was passed, with grave formality, of which this is an exact copy : " We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in...us in convention on the 23d day of May, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the US of America was ratified,...

...States, and to break up the government of the American Union, by passing the following resolution : "We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in...ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the 23d of May, in the year of our Lord 1788, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America was...

...States, and to break up the government of the American Union, by passing the following resolution : " We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in...ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the 23d of May, in the year of our Lord 1788, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America was...

...ordinance, ratifying the Confederate Constitution, was also passed : — " We, the people of North Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and...ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the State of North Carolina docs hereby assent to and ratify the 'Constitution for the Provisional Government...

...Hay, in the year of our Lord 1861. The following ordinance was also passed : We, the people of North Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and...ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the State of North Caroli na does hereby assent to and ratify the Constitution for the Provisional Government...

...May, in the year of our Lord 1861. The following ordinance was also passed : We, the people of North Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and...ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the State of North Carolina docs hereby assent to and ratify the Constitution for the Provisional Government...

...to thirty-four. The following is the ordinance adopted : — " We, the people of the State of North Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and...ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that tho ordinance adopted by the State of North Carolina, in the Convention of П89, whereby the Constitution...

...instrument no longer or more elaborate than the following: "We, the people of the State of Georgia, in convention assembled, do declare and • ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the ordinances adopted by the people of the State of Georgia in convention in 1788, whereby the Constitution...

...people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it ishereby declared and ordained, that the Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on tho 23d day of May, in the year of our Lord 1788, whereby the Constitution of tho United States of...

...States united with her under the compact entitled the Constitution of the United States of America. We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in...the ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the 28d day of May, in the year of our Lord 1788, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...