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Constitution, Article VI Sec. 19:
No citizen of any of the states or territories of the United States, which are now at war with the Confederate States, shall ever be admitted to the rights of citizenship in this state…
Resolution No. 44 (adopted 1/22/1863)
Whereas his Excellency the Governor has laid before this convention a communication from the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, expressive of the sentiments of the people in that State in reference to the principle for which we are contending, and the struggle in which we are engaged:
Be it therefore resolved by the people of the state of Florida in convention assembled, that Florida heartily responds to every sentiment and feeling of Georgia in this struggle for our rights, and is deliberately prepared to adopt as her motto, “Annihilation if it must be, Reconstruction never.”
Resolved, that in prosecuting our common defense against this unrighteous and Vandal war of the Federal States, Florida pledges to her sister states of the Confederacy her last dime and her last man.”
Citation: Constitution or form of government of the people of Florida… [Tallahassee,1862]. A f.862c