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Session 12385: 1861-01-23 12:00:00
Members from the State of Georgia inform the House that the State of Georgia has left the Union and that they are no longer members of the House of Representatives.
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Message from the Members of Georgia
Washington City, January 22, 1861.
SIR: We have received official information that the people of the State of Georgia, in convention assembled, on the 19th day of January, 1861, adopted and passed an ordinance, of which the following is a copy;
"We, the people of the State of Georgia, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the ordinance adopted by the people of Georgia, in convention, in the year 1788, whereby the Con-stitution of the United States was assented to, ratified, and adopted, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly ratifying and adopting amendments to the said Constitution, are hereby repealed, rescinded, and abro-gated; and we do further declare and ordain that the union now subsisting between the State of Georgia and the other States, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved, and that the Stae of Georgia is in the full possession and exercise of all of those rights of sovereignty which belong and appertain to a free and independent State."
The sovereign State of Georgia, of which we are Representatives in this House, having thereby dissolved the political connection between that State and the Government of the United Staes, and having thereby repealed the ordinance of 1788, by which the Constitution of the United States was ratified, and having resumed all the powers delegated to the Federal Government, we hereby announce to you that we are no longer members of the Hosue of Representatives of the United States Congress.
PETER E. LOVE.
MARTIN J. CRAWFORD,
THOMAS HARDEMAN, Jr.,
LUCIUS J. GARTRELL,
JOHN W. H. UNDERWOOD,
JAMES JACKSON,
JOHN J. JONES.
Hon. William Pennington,
Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States.
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