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 addressed to Jefferson Davis... 
 
State Convention.] [May, 1861. 
 
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 CORRESPONDENCE. 
 
 Raleigh, N. C, May, 1861. 
 His Excellency, Jefferson Davis, 
 
 President of the Confederate States of America : 
 
 Sir: — It is made my pleasing duty, as President of the North 
 Carolina State Convention, to transmit to you, two Ordinances, 
 unanimously passed by that Body, and I have charged T. E. 
 Venablc, Esq., (special messenger) with the delivery of the same. 
 I avail myself of this occasion, to express the very high gratifi- 
 cation I feel, in being able to announce to you the accession of 
 this ancient State to the Confederate States of America. And 
 most devoutly do I pray that this Union, strengthend hy all the 
 kindred ties of climate, pursuits and institutions, may perpetual- 
 ly " promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of 
 liberty" to our people and their posterity. 
 
 To which, I beg leave to add assurances of the very high 
 consideration, with which, 
 
 I am, very respectfully, 
 
 Your ob't servant, 
 
 W. N. EDWARDS. 
 
 Pres. of Convention. 
 
2 State Convention. |_Mar. 
 
 CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, 
 
 Department of State, } 
 Montgomery, May 27, 1861. j 
 
 To the Hon. W. N. Edwards, 
 
 President of the Convention 
 
 of the people of North Carolina : 
 
 Sir : — The President of the Confederate States of America 
 has received with great pleasure your letter of the 25th instant, 
 communicating the action of your Convention, in relation to 
 the existing difficulties between the States and the government 
 of the United States of America. He directs me to say, that 
 the people and government of the Confederate States have re- 
 ceived this action with great pleasure, and place a very high 
 estimate upon the wisdom and virtue of that ancient Common- 
 wealth, in shaping the policy of the new Confederacy in efforts 
 to maintain stability, progress, and constitutional government. 
 "We accept with great pleasure, as a member of our Confedera- 
 tion your honored State, and in accordance with the action of the 
 late Congress of the Confederate States, will immediately consum- 
 mate it by executive proclamation, a copy of which is herewith 
 forwarded to you. 
 
 I have only to add, that your action has filled with joy the 
 heart3 of thousands of your sons, who have heretofore cast their 
 lot amongst us, and gives new confidence to the cause of con- 
 stitutional liberty. 
 
 I am, very respectfully, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 R. TOOMBS, 
 
 Secretary of State. 
 
18G1.] State Convention, 3 
 
 PROCLAMATION 
 
 By the President of the Confederate States of America. 
 
 Whereas, on the 17th of May, 1861, the Congress of the 
 Confederate States passed an act, approved by me, which pro- 
 vides that the State of North Carolina shall be admitted a 
 member of the Confederate States of America, upon an equal 
 footing with the other States, under the Constitution for the 
 Provisional Government of the same, upon the condition that 
 the Convention of said State shall adopt and ratify said Con- 
 stitution for the Provisional Government of the Confederate 
 States, and shall transmit to the President of the Confederate 
 States, before the re-assembling of Congress, through the Gov- 
 ernor of said State, or some other proper organ, an authentic 
 copy of the act or ordinance of said Convention so adopting 
 and ratifying said Provisional Constitution, and that upon the 
 receipt thereof, the President shall, by proclamation announce 
 the fact ; 
 
 And whereas, the Governor of the State of North Carolina, 
 has transmitted to me an authentic copy of the ordinance of 
 the Convention of said State, adopting and ratifying the Con- 
 stitution for the Provisional Government of the Confederate 
 States: 
 
 Now, therefore, I, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confed- 
 erate States of America, in virtue of the authority vested in me 
 by the act of the Congress above recited, do issue this my pro- 
 clamation, announcing to all whom it may concern, that the 
 State of North Carolina is hereby admitted a member of the 
 Confederate States of America, and that the laws of the said 
 Confederate States are hcrebv extended over said State, as 
 
4 State Convention, l^Iay, 1861. 
 
 fully and completely as over the other States composing the 
 same. 
 
 Given under my hand and the seal of the Confeder- 
 [seal.] ate States, at Montgomery, this 27th day of May, 
 
 A. D. 1861. 
 (Signed): 
 
 By the President, JEFFERSON DAVIS. 
 
 (Signed): 
 
 R. TOOMBS, 
 
 Secretary of State. 
 
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