AN ORDINANCE to dissolve the union
between the State of Louisiana and other States united with her under the
compact entitled "The Constitution of the United States of
America."
We, the people of the State of Louisiana, in convention
assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, That
the ordinance passed by us in convention on the 22d day of November, in the year
eighteen hundred and eleven, whereby the Constitution of the United States of
America and the amendments of the said Constitution were adopted, and all laws
and ordinances by which the State of Louisiana became a member of the Federal
Union, be, and the same are hereby, repealed and abrogated; and that the union
now subsisting between Louisiana and other States under the name of "The United
States of America" is hereby dissolved.
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.
We do further declare and ordain, That
all rights acquired and vested under the Constitution of the United States, or
any act of Congress, or treaty, or under any law of this State, and not
incompatible with this ordinance, shall remain in force and have the same effect
as if this ordinance had not been passed.
Adopted in convention at Baton
Rouge this 26th day of January, 1861.