Here is the Truth. Read it
to your class and ask
them what part of it they do
not understand. Though
pro-union Tar Heels are
anti-tyranny, still.
to your class and ask
them what part of it they do
not understand. Though
pro-union Tar Heels are
anti-tyranny, still.
The True Reason Why NC Left the Union to Join the Confederacy
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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
A PROCLAMATION,
BY JOHN W. ELLIS,
GOVERNOR OF NORTH CAROLINA
Whereas: By Proclamation of Abraham Lincoln, President of the
United States, followed by a requisition of Simon Cameron, Secre-
tary of War, I am informed that the said Abraham Lincoln has made
a call for 75,000 men to be employed for the invasion of the peaceful
homes of the South, and for the violent subversion of the liberties of
a free people, constituting a large part of the whole population of the
late United States:
And, whereas, this high-handed act of tyrannical outrage is not only
in violation of all constitutional law, in utter disregard of every
sentiment of humanity and Christian civilization, and conceived in a
spirit of aggression unparalleled by any act of recorded history, but
is a direct step towards the subjugation of the whole South, and the
conversion of a free Republic, inherited from our fathers, into a
military despotism, to be established by worse than foreign
enemies on the ruins of our once glorious Constitution of Equal
Rights.
Now, therefore, I, John W. Ellis, Governor of the State of North
Carolina, for these extraordinary causes, do here by issue this,
my Proclamation, notifying and requesting the Senators and
Members of the House of Commons of the General Assembly of
North Carolina, to meet in Special Session at the Capitol, in the City
of Raleigh, on Wednesday the first day of May next. And I furthermore
exhort all good citizens throughout the State to be mindful that their
first allegiance is due to the Sovereignty which protects their homes
and dearest interests, as their first service is due for the sacred
defence of their hearths, and of the soil which holds the graves of
our glorious dead.
United action in defence of the sovereignty of North - Carolina, and
of the rights of the South, becomes now the duty of all.
Given under my hand, and attested by the Great Seal of the
State. Done at the City of Raleigh, the 17th day of April; A.D . ,
1861, and in the eighty-fifth year of our Independence,
JOHN. W. ELLIS.
By the Governor,
Graham Daves, Private Secretary.
[Presented as a Public Education Service of the NC SCV]
A PROCLAMATION,
BY JOHN W. ELLIS,
GOVERNOR OF NORTH CAROLINA
Whereas: By Proclamation of Abraham Lincoln, President of the
United States, followed by a requisition of Simon Cameron, Secre-
tary of War, I am informed that the said Abraham Lincoln has made
a call for 75,000 men to be employed for the invasion of the peaceful
homes of the South, and for the violent subversion of the liberties of
a free people, constituting a large part of the whole population of the
late United States:
And, whereas, this high-handed act of tyrannical outrage is not only
in violation of all constitutional law, in utter disregard of every
sentiment of humanity and Christian civilization, and conceived in a
spirit of aggression unparalleled by any act of recorded history, but
is a direct step towards the subjugation of the whole South, and the
conversion of a free Republic, inherited from our fathers, into a
military despotism, to be established by worse than foreign
enemies on the ruins of our once glorious Constitution of Equal
Rights.
Now, therefore, I, John W. Ellis, Governor of the State of North
Carolina, for these extraordinary causes, do here by issue this,
my Proclamation, notifying and requesting the Senators and
Members of the House of Commons of the General Assembly of
North Carolina, to meet in Special Session at the Capitol, in the City
of Raleigh, on Wednesday the first day of May next. And I furthermore
exhort all good citizens throughout the State to be mindful that their
first allegiance is due to the Sovereignty which protects their homes
and dearest interests, as their first service is due for the sacred
defence of their hearths, and of the soil which holds the graves of
our glorious dead.
United action in defence of the sovereignty of North - Carolina, and
of the rights of the South, becomes now the duty of all.
Given under my hand, and attested by the Great Seal of the
State. Done at the City of Raleigh, the 17th day of April; A.D . ,
1861, and in the eighty-fifth year of our Independence,
JOHN. W. ELLIS.
By the Governor,
Graham Daves, Private Secretary.
[Presented as a Public Education Service of the NC SCV]
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