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20 December 1860
Charleston Mercury
The Union is dissolved! [Charleston Mercury, Extra Ed.]
Docketed on verso with contemporary and (apparently post-war) note.
GLC02688
1861
South Carolina Convention (1860-1862)
[The Ordinance of secession for the state of South Carolina]
Exact lithographic copy of the original manuscript ordinance with reproduced signatures of those who voted for the act. Printed by Evans and Cogswell, by act of the South Carolina assembly. "...An ordinance to dissolve the Union between the State of...
GLC00395
after 20 December 1860
South Carolina Convention.
[South Carolina secession ordinance]
Printed by Evans and Cogswell. Announces secession, stating " ... the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of 'The United States of America,' is hereby dissolved." Secession was declared at Charleston, 20...
GLC05987.15
circa January 1861
Convention of the people of the state of Alabama (1861 : Montgomery)
To the People of Alabama
Delegates to the Alabama Convention, convened to decide upon the issue of secession, "make public the reasons that actuate them in withholding their signatures from the Ordinance of Secession on the 11th day of January, 1861." Lists the names of...
GLC05987.13
16 March 1861
Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)
Transmittal of a proposed amendment to protect slavery (c/s Seward)
Sending a proposed amendment to Governor to John Downey of California. "I transmit an authenticated copy of a Joint Resolution to amend the Constitution of the United States, adopted by Congress and approved on the 2d of March, 1861, by James...
GLC05631
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