One Day Exhibit: Original South Carolina Ordinance of Secession
PAST EXHIBIT
Monday, December 20, 2010 (One Day Only)
Adopting the Ordinance of Secession on December 20, 1860, South Carolina became the first state to declare its separation from the Union. Four days later, state leaders summarized reasons for this in the “Declaration of the Immediate Causes” of secession. As the Civil War Sesquicentennial begins, these will be displayed by The Charleston Museum on the 150th anniversary of the Ordinance. Both documents are preserved by the SC Department of Archives & History. Free with Paid Admission to the Museum
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The State of South Carolina
At a Convention of the People of the
State of South Carolina, begun and holden at Columbia on the
Seventeenth day of December in the year or our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty and thence continued by adjournment to Charleston, and
there by divers adjournments to the Twentieth day of December in the
same year –
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
herby 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 eight eight, whereby the Constitution of the
United State of America was ratified, and also all Acts and parts of
Acts of the General Assembly of this State, ratifying amendment of the
said Constitution, are here by repealed; and that the union now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
Photos from the Exhibit
The Ordinance of Secession in the exhibit – Threads of War
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Kid Tours Special Event – Secession!
