South Carolina formally secedes from the Union...

Item # 714033

December 21, 1860

NEW YORK SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE, Dec. 21, 1860 With Lincoln's election determined, much national focus is on the slavery issue and the secession of Southern states.
Certainly the most notable content is the detailed report from the South Carolina convention on seceding from the Union, ultimately approved on December 20.
The page 4 and 5 reporting is headed: "THE SECESSION MOVEMENT" "The South Carolina Convention" "Fire-Eating Speeches" "A Convention of Seceding States" "The Ordinance of Secession" "It is Adopted Unanimously". The report headed: "Fourth Day" from Charleston includes: "...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 We, the people of the state of South Carolina...do declare & ordain......are hereby repealed & that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved. The ordinance was taken up and passed by a unanimous vote of 169 members...As soon as its passage was known without the doors of the Convention, it rapidly spread on the streets, a crowd collected, and there was immense cheering..." with more.
With South Carolina's decision, other states are close to seceding as well, as reported in this issue.
Page 7 has a small diagram of Fort Moultrie in Charleston harbor.
Eight pages, foxing throughout, irregular at the spine margin, good condition.