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War of the Rebellion, Official Records
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Historical SummaryIT was clear that the success of the Republicans in the election of 1860 would mean the exclusion of slavery from the Territories. The legislature of South Carolina met Nov. 4 to choose presidential electors, and remained in session until it was known that Lincoln had been elected. On the 7th an act was passed calling a State convention, to meet at Columbia Dec. 17, to consider the question of withdrawing from the Union. The convention met at the time and place appointed, but adjourned to Charleston because of an epidemic of small-pox in Columbia. On the 20th an ordinance of secession was unanimously adopted by the one hundred and sixty-nine delegates present, and the president of the convention proclaimed South Carolina to be "an independent Commonwealth." On the 21st the Representatives of the State in Congress announced their withdrawal from the House. A "Declaration of the immediate causes which induce and justify the secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union" was adopted on the 24th. REFERENCES. — Text in Amer. Annual Cyclopœdia, 1861, pp. 646–657; Moore’s Rebellion Record, I., Doc. 2. The declaration of causes, and ordinances of secession passed by the other Southern States, are collected in Amer. Hist. Leaflets, No. 12. On the steps preliminary to secession, see Pike’s First Blows of the Civil War. Buchanan defended his official conduct during 1860–61 in The Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion (London, 1865); a later defence is in Curtis’s Buchanan, II., chap. 15.
No. 115.
South Carolina Ordinance of Secession
December 20, 1860
AN ORDINANCE to dissolve the union between the State of South Carolina and the 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 . . . [May 23, 1788] . . . , 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acts and parts of acts of the general assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America," is hereby dissolved.
Chicago: War of the Rebellion, Official Records in Documentary Source Book of American History, 1606-1913, ed. William MacDonald (1863-1938) (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916), 424. Original Sources, accessed November 21, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=IHXCQN4KT1BV1M3.
MLA: . War of the Rebellion, Official Records, Vol. I, in Documentary Source Book of American History, 1606-1913, edited by William MacDonald (1863-1938), New York, The Macmillan Company, 1916, page 424. Original Sources. 21 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=IHXCQN4KT1BV1M3.
Harvard: , War of the Rebellion, Official Records. cited in 1916, Documentary Source Book of American History, 1606-1913, ed. , The Macmillan Company, New York, pp.424. Original Sources, retrieved 21 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=IHXCQN4KT1BV1M3.
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