Excerpt from Message of Governor A. B. Moore, to the Senate of Alabama: January 14, 1861 The action of the people of Alabama in their conven tion, in withdrawing from the Federal Union is already known to you. This exercise of the sovereign power of the State, to protect the rights, interests and honor of her people, in my Opinion, must be regarded as one of wisdom, and indeed of political necessity. The rights of the State, and the interests of her citizens, were no longer protected in the Union, and unless it was determined to abandon all hope of their preservation, no other resource was left than to withdraw from the Union, and throw off a government that failed to secure them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.