South Carolina An ordinance to dissolve the Union between the State of South Carolina....
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04483 Author/Creator: South Carolina Place Written: Charleston Type: Broadside Date: 20 December 1860 [1861] Pagination: 1 sheet ; 71.5 x 66.5 cm. Order a Copy
Dated 1860, but printed 1861.
The State of South Carolina.
At a Convention of the People of the State of
South Carolina, begun and holden at
Columbia, on the Seventeenth day of
December, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty and thence
continued by adjournment to Charleston, and
there by divers adjournments to the Twentieth
day of December in the same year -
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Acts and parts of Acts of the General Assembly of this State, ratifying amendments of the said Constitution are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of "The United States of America", is hereby dissolved.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
D. F. Jamison Delegate from Barnwell and
President of the Convention
Thos. Chiles Perrin Francis Hugh Wardlaw Chesley D Evans R W Barnwell L. W. Spratt
Edward Noble R.G.M. Dunovant Wm..W. Harllee Jos. Dan'l Pope Williams Middleton
J.H. Wilson James Parsons Carroll A W Bethea C. P Broom F. D. Richardson
Thos Thomson Wm Gregg E. W Goodwin John M Shingler B. H. Rutledge -
David Lewis Wardlaw Andrew J. Hammond William D Johnson Daniel DuPre Edward McCrady
John Alfred Calhoun James Tompkins Alex McLeod A Mazyck Francis J Porcher
John Izarrd Middleton James .C. Smyly John P. Kinard William Cain T L Gourdin
Benjamin E. Sessions John Hugh, Means Robert Moorman P G Snowden. John S. Palmer
J. N. Whitner William Strother Lyles Joseph Caldwell Geo: W. Seabrook - John L: Nowell
James L Orr Henry Campbell Davis Simeon Fair John Jenkins John S O'Hear
J.P. Reed Jno. Buchanan Thomas Worth Glover R. T. Davant John. G. Landrum
R F. Simpson James C. Furman Laurence M Keitt E M. Seabrook. B. B. Foster
Benjamin Franklin Mauldin P. E. Duncan Donald Rowe Barton John. J. Wannamaker Benjamin F. Kilgore
Lewis Malone Ayer, jr - W R Easley Wm Hunter Elias B Scott Jas: H. Carlisle
W. Peronneau Finley James Harrison Andrew F Lewis Jos E. Jenkins Simpson Bobo
J J Brabham W. H. Campbell Robt A. Thompson. Langdon Cheves Wm Curtis
Benj. Wm. Lawton T J. Withers William. S. Grisham Georde Rhodes H D Green
Jno McKee James Chesnut Jr John Maxwell AG Magrath Matthew P. Mayes
Thomas W Moore Joseph Brevard Kershaw Jno E Frampton Wm Porcher Miles Thomas. Reese, English Sr.
Richard Woods Thos W Beaty W Ferguson Hutson John Townsend Albertus Chambers Spain
A. Q. Dunovant Wm. J. Ellis WF de Saussure Robert N. Gourdin JM Gadberry
John A. Inglis R L Crawford William Hopkins H. W. Connor J. S. Sims
Henry Mc Iver W.C. Cauthen James. H. Adams Theodore D Wayman Wm. H. Gist
Stephen Jackson D. P. Robinson Maxcy Gregg R Barnwell Rhett James Jefferies
W Pinkney Shingler H C Young John W Kinsler CG Memminger. Anthony W. Dozier
Peter P. Bonneau H W Garlington Ephraim M. Clarke Gabriel Manigault John G. Pressley
John P. Richardson John D Williams Alex H. Brown John Julius Pringle Smith R. C. Logan
John L. Manning W D Watts E. S. P. Bellinger. Isaac W. Hayne Francis S Parker
John I Ingram Thos..Wier Merrick E. Carn. J n H Honour Benj. Faneuil Duncan
Edgar W. Charles H. J. Caughman E. R. Henderson Richd De Treville Saml Taylor Atkinson
Julius A. Dargan John C Geiger Peter Stokes Tho. M. Hanckel Alex M Forster.
Isaac D Wilson Paul Quattlebaum Daniel Flud A W. Burnet Wm Blakburn Wilson
John M Timmons W.B. Rowell David. C. Appleby Thos. Y. Simons Robert T. Allison
Artemus T Darby Saml Rainey
A. I. Barron.
Attest: Benj. F. Author Clerk of this Convention
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