The excerpt means that Georgia had decided to
Read the opening of Georgia's Ordinance of Secession.
We do further Declare and Ordain, that the Union now
subsisting between the State of Georgia and other
States, under the name of the United States of America,
Is Hereby Dissolved, and that the State of Georgia is in
full possession and exercise of all those rights of
Sovereignty which belong and appertain to a Free and
Independent State.
leave the Union.
O remain part of the Union.
declare war on other states.
ask Congress for concessions.