thereof, heretofore delegated to the Government of the United States of America, be and they are hereby withdrawn from said Government, and are hereby resumed and vested in the people of the State of Alabama. And as it is the desire and purpose of the people of Alabama to meet the slaveholding States of the South, who may approve such purpose, in order to frame a provisional as well as permanent Government upon the principles of the Constitution of the United States,
Be it resolved by the people of Alabama in Convention assembled, That the people of the States of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri, be and are hereby invited to meet the people of the State of Alabama, by their Delegates, in Convention, on the 4th day of February, A.D. 1861, at the city of Montgomery, in the State of Alabama, for the purpose of consulting with each other as to the most effectual mode of securing concerted and harmonious action in whatever measures may be deemed most desirable for our common peace and security.
And be it further resolved, That the President of this Convention be and is hereby instructed to transmit forthwith a copy of the foregoing Preamble, Ordinance and Resolutions to the Governors of the several States named in said resolutions.
Done by the people of the State of Alabama in Convention assembled, at Montgomery, on this, the 11th day of January, A.D. 1861.
STATE OF GEORGIA,
City of Atlanta.
Whereas, It is now manifest that the Cotton States will secede from the Union, and that Commissioners, or Delegates, will in all probability be appointed by the Conventions of such States, to meet at some central point, for the purpose of forming a Southern Confederacy; and believing that there is no place possessing more advantages, or more appropriate for such a meeting than the city of Atlanta, when we take into consideration its central position, accessibility, and Hotel accommodations, we would desire to call the attention of the various Conventions now in session, as well as those which may hereafter assemble, to this subject:
Be it therefore resolved by the Mayor and Council of the City of Atlanta, That said Conventions be most respectfully requested to appoint this as the place of holding said Central Convention; and we hereby tender to the members of said body the hospitalities of our city, pledging ourselves and our citizens to do all in
