Charleston Mercury The Union is dissolved! [Charleston Mercury, Extra Ed.]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02688 Author/Creator: Charleston Mercury Place Written: Charleston Type: Broadside Date: 20 December 1860 Pagination: 1 sheet : docket ; 60 x 31 cm Order a Copy PDF Download(s): PDF of image and transcript
Docketed on verso with contemporary and (apparently post-war) note.
CHARLESTON
MERCURY
EXTRA:
Passed unanimously at 1.15 o'clock, P.M., December
20th, 1860.
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 Untied 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Acts and parts of Acts of the General Assembly of this State, ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of "The United States of America," is hereby dissolved.
The
Union
is
Dissolved!
[docket]
We are out of the Union and
once more independent -
I rejoice at it.
Love to all
Yours Teddie
This was sent me by my old school
friend Teddie Hankston of Charleston.
I visited him again after the war
but he had no kick to wake
as to the result
This has served its purpose and
may be destroyed
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