Florida
Ordinance of Secession
10
January 1861 We, the people of the State of Florida, in convention assembled, do
solemnly ordain, publish, and declare, That the State of Florida
hereby withdraws herself from the confederacy of States existing under
the name of the United States of America and from the existing
Government of the said States; and that all political connection
between her and the Government of said States ought to be, and the
same is hereby, totally annulled, and said Union of States dissolved;
and the State of Florida is hereby declared a sovereign and
independent nation; and that all ordinances heretofore adopted, in so
far as they create or recognize said Union, are rescinded; and all
laws or parts of laws in force in this State, in so far as they
recognize or assent to said Union, be, and they are hereby, repealed.
ORDINANCE OF SECESSION
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