South Carolina Secession
December 20, 1860
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The Original Confederate Imprint; Issued Fifteen Minutes
After South Carolina's Vote to Secede from the union. This is the first
printing of the secession ordinance, passed by the state convention called by
Governor Pickens on December 20th, 1860. Charleston Mercury Extra: Passed
Unanimously at 1:15 o'clock, P.M. December 20h 1860. An Ordinance to Dissolve
the Union between that State of South Carolina and other States united with her
under the compact entitled Constitution of the United States of America ... The
Union is Dissolved. Broadside Courtesy of
Carole and Bob McWaters
AN ORDINANCE to dissolve the union
between the State of South Carolina and other States united with her under the
compact entitled "The Constitution of the United States of America."
We, the people of the State of South
Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby
declared and ordained, That the ordinance adopted by us in convention on the
twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and
eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America was
ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this
State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and
that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the
name of the "United States of America," is hereby dissolved.
Done at Charleston the twentieth day of
December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty.
