r acts of the legislature as may be passed in pursuance thereof,
according to the true intent and meaning of the same; and on the
neglect or omission of any such person or persons so to do his or
their office or offices shall be forthwith vacated, and shall be
filled up as if such person or persons were dead or had resigned.
And no person hereafter elected to any office of honor, profit, or
trust, civil or military, shall, until the legislature shall
otherwise provide and direct, enter on the execution of his office
or be in any respect competent to discharge the duties thereof until
he shall in like manner have taken a similar oath; and no juror
shall be empaneled in any of the courts of the State in any cause in
which shall be in question this ordinance or any act of the
legislature passed in pursuance thereof, unless he shall first, in
addition to the usual oath, have taken an oath that he will well and
truly obey, execute, and enforce this ordinance and such act or acts
of the legislature as may be passed to carry the same into operation
and effect, according to the true intent and meaning thereof.

The ordinance concludes:

And we, the people of South Carolina, to the end that it may be
fully understood by the Government of the United States and the
people of the co-States that we are determined to maintain this
ordinance and declaration at every hazard, do further declare that
we will not submit to the application of force on the part of the
Federal Government to reduce this State to obedience, but that we
will consider the passage by Congress of any act authorizing the
employment of a military or naval force against the State of South
Carolina, her constituted authorities or citizens, or any act
abolishing or closing the ports of this State, or any of them, or
otherwise obstructing the free ingress and egress of vessels to and
from the said ports, or any other act on the part of the Federal
Government to coerce the State, shut up her ports, destroy or harass
her commerce, or to enforce the acts hereby declared to be null and
void, otherwise than through the civil tribunals of the country, as
inconsistent with the longer continuance of South Carolina in the
Union; and that the people of this State will thenceforth hold
themselves absolved from all further obligation to maintain or