...Lincoln had been legally elected. South Carolina seceded in convention, Dec. 10, 1860, and declared " The union now subsisting between South Carolina, and...The United States of America,' is hereby dissolved." A placard, printed half an hour after the vote was taken, being a copy of the secession ordinance and...

...the election took place when a state convention was held in South Carolina, which declared the Union subsisting between South Carolina and other states under the name of the United States dissolved. Other states followed in adopting a similar resolution. Mississippi did so on January 8,...

...State, by a unanimous vote declared ' that the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and the other States, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved ; ' and the action already taken in several other Southern States indicates, most clearly, their intention...

...of December, 1860, a convention, assembled in Charleston, declared that' the union before existing between South Carolina and other states under the name of the United States of America was dissolved'. By the 1st of February, 1861, through the influence of the press and the devices...

...General Assembly of this State, ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina...The United States of America," is hereby dissolved. December 22. The Senate Committee of thirteen rejected the "Crittenden Compromise." It contained the...

...General Assembly of the State, ratifying Amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed, and the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and...the United States of America, is hereby dissolved." No discussion followed the submission of this ordinance to the consideration of the Convention. At...

...said Constitution, are hereby repealed, and the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and the other States under the name of ' the United States of America,' is hereby dissolved." The fatal plunge was thus taken, and how to avert the untold calamity it portended was the first object...

...said Constitution, are hereby repealed, and the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and the other States under the name of ' the United States of America,' is hereby dissolved." The fatal plunge was thus taken, and how to avert the untold calamity it portended was the first object...

...repealed, abrogated and fully set aside; and the union now subsisting between the State of Arkansas and the other states, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby forever dissolved. And we do further hereby declare and ordain, that the State of Arkansas hereby...

...whereby the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified . . . [is] hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina...The United States of America, is hereby dissolved." The eminent Charleston lawyer James L. Petigru, hearing the church bells ring on that December day...