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A [House.] 
 
 HOUSE, February 17th, 1863. Ordered U be printed and laid on 
 the table. 
 [By Mr. Gaitker.] 
 
 RESOLXJTIO]srS 
 
 VINDICATING THE LOYALTY OF THE STATE OF NORTH 
 CAROLINA AND ITS GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 
 
 Whereas, various slanderous report? have been circulated both in 
 the State and out of it, reflecting upon the loyalty of the meinb 
 this Legislature and the people of this State, and ascribing to them 
 hostility to* the Confederate Government, and a desire to reconstruct 
 the Union ; therefore, 
 
 Be it unanimously ; . That as the representatives of the people, 
 
 and iirour own behalf as individual citizen? of the State, we protest 
 against and denounce these accusations as utterly false in letter and in 
 spirit, as calculated to misrepresent the sentiments of those who have 
 never faltered in the support of all constitutional measures for the 
 prosecution of the war, and as tending to produce jealousies and 
 heartburnings among a people who have sealed their devotion to the 
 Independence with their blood, upon the proudest 
 -fields of the revolution; that the charge of ire <m the 
 
 if this Legislature, or any portion of it, to conllict with the 
 federate Government, or to embarrass the President in the pi 
 tion of the war. i I and slanderous; that we 
 
 hereby pledge ourselves most heartily and emphatically 10 the 
 vigorous constitutional war policy, promising, in the name of IS 
 Carolina, the most liberal contribution of men and money to th 
 port of it, and protesting against any settlement of the Struggle which 
 
 not secure the entire independence of the Confederate 
 America. 
 
 Resolved, That the Governor be requested to communicate a copy 
 of these resolutions to the Governors of the several States of the 
 Confederacy, and also to our own Senators and Representative 
 Congress, to be laid before their respective bodies. 
 
 [Read and ratified in General Assembly, this 30th day of January, 
 A. D., 1863.] 
 
 R. S. DONNELL, S. 11. C 
 R. W. LASSITER, S. S. pro I 
 
 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, > 
 Office of Secretary of State. ) 
 
 I, JOHN P. II. feUSS, Secretary of State, in and for the State of 
 North Carolina, do hereby certify that the foregoing is, a true copy of 
 the orignal on file in this office. 
 
 Given under my hand, this 11th day of February. 1863. 
 
 JOHN P. II. RUSS, 
 
 Secretary of State. 
 

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