ORDINANCE OF SECESSION
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they create or recognize said Union, are rescinded; and all laws or parts of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Union, be, and they are hereby, repealed.