Ordinance of Secession of Mississippi

Ordinance of Secession of Mississippi
(Passed in the State Capitol at Jackson on 09 January 1861, by a vote of 83-15.)

AN ORDINANCE
to dissolve the union between the State of Mississippi and other States united with her under the compact entitled "The Constitution of the United States of America."

The people of the State of Mississippi, in Convention assembled, do ordain and declare, and it is hereby ordained and declared, as follows, to-wit:

Section 1. That all the laws and ordinances by which the said State of Mississippi became a member of the Federal Union of the United States of America be, and the same are hereby, repealed, and that all obligations on the part of said State or the people thereof to observe the same be withdrawn; and that the said State doth hereby resume all the rights, functions, and powers which by any of said laws or ordinances were conveyed to the Government of the said United States, and is absolved from all the obligations, restraints, and duties incurred to the said Federal Union, and shall from henceforth be a free, sovereign, and independent State.

Section 2. That so much of the first section of the seventh article of the Constitution of this State as requires members of the Legislature and all officers, executive and judicial, to take an oath or affirmation to support the Constitution of the United States be, and the same is hereby, abrogated and annulled.

Section 3. That all rights acquired and vested under the Constitution of the United States, or under any act of Congress passed, or treaty made, in pursuance thereof, 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.

Section 4. That the people of the State of Mississippi hereby consent to form a federal union with such of the States as may have seceded or may secede from the Union of the United States of America, upon the basis of the present Constitution of the said United States, except such parts thereof as embrace other portions than such seceding States.

Thus ordained and declared in Convention the 9^th day of January, in the year of our Lord 1861.

Mississippi Secession Convention Delegates (A ↓ denotes a Delegate who voted in opposition to the Ordinance of Secession. To assist in completing full names contact the Historian.)
ADAMS	LEAKE
Alexander King Farrar↓ Josiah Winchester, Sr.↓	Wallace Bruce Colbert
AMITE	LOWNDES
David Wiley Hurst↓	George R. Clayton
ATTALA	MADISON
E.H. Sanders↓	Albert P. Hill, Sr.
BOLIVAR	MARION
Miles Hill McGehee	Hamilton Mayson
CALHOUN	MARSHALL
Marcus D.L. Stephens W.A. Sumner	Samuel Benton Jeremiah Watkins Clapp Alexander Mosby Clayton Willis Monroe Lea, Sr. Harvey Washington Walter
CARROLL	MONROE
William Booth James Zachariah George	Samuel Jameson Gholson Francis Marion Rogers
CHICKASAW	NESHOBA
Cyrus Briscoe Baldwin Jehu Amaziah Orr	David Murray Backstrom
CHOCTAW	NEWTON
William Felix Brantley James H. Edwards William H. Witty	M.M. Keith
CLAIBORNE	NOXUBEE
Henry Thomas Ellett	Israel Victor Welch
CLARKE	OKTIBBEHA
Samuel Heidelberg Terral	Thomas C. Bookter
COAHOMA	PANOLA
James Lusk Alcorn	John B. Fizer Edward F. McGehee
COPIAH	PERRY
Phillip S. Catching Benjamin King	Porter Jacob Myers↓
COVINGTON	PIKE
A.C. Powell	James M. Nelson
DeSOTO	PONTOTOC
James Ronald Chalmers Stephen D. Johnston Thomas Lewers	Robert Watkins Flournoy, Sr. Charles de la Boulay Fontaine John B. Herring Hugh Reid Miller
FRANKLIN	RANKIN
Daniel Henderson Parker↓	William Denson John Jones Thornton↓
GREENE	SCOTT
Thomas Jefferson Roberts	Caleb White Taylor
HANCOCK	SIMPSON
John B. Deason	William J. Douglas
HARRISON	SMITH
David Chalmers Glenn	Waddy Thompson
HINDS	SUNFLOWER
Warren P. Anderson Wiley Pope Harris William B. Smart	Edward P. Jones
HOLMES	TALLAHATCHIE
James Monroe Dyer, Sr. Walter Leake Keirn	Alexander Pattison
ISSAQUENA	TIPPAH
Albert C. Gibson	Joel H. Berry James Shelton Davis Orlando Davis Daniel B. Wright
ITAWAMBA	TISHOMINGO
Russell Owen Beene Arthur Benjamin Bullard↓ Malachai Crawford Cummings↓ William Henry Haywood Tison	John A. Blair↓ Wright Walker Bonds, Jr.↓ Arthur Exum Reynolds↓ Thomas P. Young↓
JACKSON	TUNICA
Alfred Edward Lewis	Andrew Miller
JASPER	WARREN
Oliver C. Dease	Walker Brooke Thomas Alexander Marshall↓
JEFFERSON	WASHINGTON
James Steptoe Johnston, Sr.	Jacob Schall Yerger↓
JONES	WAYNE
John Hathorn Powell, Jr.	William Joseph Eckford
KEMPER	WILKINSON
O.Y. Neely Thomas H. Woods	Alfred C. Holt
LAFAYETTE	WINSTON
Thomas Dudley Isom Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II	William S. Bolling John Kennedy
LAUDERDALE	YALOBUSHA
James Bartlett Ramsey F.C. Semmes	Francis Marion Aldridge William Barksdale
LAWRENCE	YAZOO
William Gwinn	Henry Vaughan George B. Wilkinson
Note: One of the Delegates to the Convention, John H. Wood of Attala, was absent for the vote.