AN ORDINANCE
To dissolve the union now existing between the State of Arkansas and the other States united with her under the compact entitled “The constitution of the United States of America.”
Whereas, In addition to the well-founded causes of complaint set forth by this convention, in resolutions adopted on the 11th March, A. D., 1861, against the sectional party now in power at Washington City, headed by Abraham Lincoln, he has, in the face of resolutions passed by this convention pledging the State of Arkansas to resist, to the last extremity, any attempt on the part of such power to coerce any State that had seceded from the old Union, proclaimed to the world that war should be waged against such States until they should be compelled to submit to their rule, and large forces to accomplish this have by this same power been called out, and are now being marshaled to carry out this inhuman design, and to longer submit to such rule, or remain in the old Union of the United States, would be disgraceful and ruinous to the State of Arkansas: