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Hillsborough Recorder (NC)

Hillsborough Recorder (NC)

May 15, 1861

Page 2

 

            Apr. 22, 1861—The oath to support the Constitution of the United States is duly binding so long as a man is a citizen of a State of the Union.  When she secedes he is no longer bound.  He is a citizen of Virginia, which has ceased to be one of the United States, and his allegiance is due to Virginia.

            This is my well-settled opinion, and I act upon it.  For I am as an officer bound to support the Constitution of the United States; but when Virginia secedes, I feel I am absolved from my oath, and am bound only to support Virginia.

                                                J. B. TUCKER

 

[Transcribed by Sharon Strout]

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