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The South Carolina Ordinance of Secession...
The South Carolina Ordinance of Secession...
Item # 690966
December 21, 1860
DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, Dec. 21, 1860
* South Carolina Ordinance of Secession approved
* Abraham Lincoln as president elect era
* From our nation's capital ( rare as such)
Page 3 has a wealth of reports concerning South Carolina and secession, as well as reports on other states as well.
Certainly the most notable report is headed: "South Carolina Convention" with the reports of December 20. This report includes the significant Ordinance of Secession, noting in part: "...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' and which is as follows:
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all Acts and parts of Acts of the General Assembly of the State, ratifying amendments of the said Constitution hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America", is hereby dissolved.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."
Articles are headed: "A New Phase of Secession" which includes in part: "...the expediency of separating from Virginia in case of her withdrawing from the Union to join in the formation of a Southern Confederacy..."; "The South Carolina Programme" which includes in part: "...the new governor...of the state of South Carolina, in proceeding to proclaim herself free and independent of the Federal Government, on the fact of the deletion of Mr. Lincoln...that renders it incompatible for South Carolina to remain longer in confederation with her sisters...".
Also: "Alabama" includes in part: "...and the issue of immediate separate state secession, which they made directly after learning of Mr. Lincoln's election...". Other notable reports as well.
Also of interesting is a report: "Important Measure" concerning the bill to construction a railroad across the country, which would get sidetracked due to the Civil War (would be completed in 1869).
Terrific to have this Ordinance of Secession in this notable newspaper from the nation's capital.
Four pages, large folio size, a bit irregular at the spine margin, good condition. Folder size noted is for the issue folded in half.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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