Immediately on the election of Lincoln to the Presidency the legislature of South
Carolina called a convention to meet December 17 to consider the question of succession.
The convention, chosen by popular vote, was overwhelmingly in favor of immediate
Succession. It met at Charleston and on December twenty voted unanimously for
They developed 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, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the ordinance adopted by us
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