...year of our Lord 1788, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all Acts and parts of Acts of the General Assembly...the United States of America, is hereby dissolved. He couldn't believe it. He heard the talk of secession before, but never really believed that a state...

...state's action in ratifying the United States Constitution had been repealed "and that the union [then] subsisting between South Carolina and other states, under the name of The United States of America'" was dissolved. For his part, Ulysses Grant had anticipated the action; still, he was shaken...

...We the people of the state of South Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain . . . that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other states, under the name of tbe United States of America, is hereby dissolved." 378 WAR FOB THE UNION, 1861-1805 CHABUSTO8 HAEB0B...

...hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly...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...

...seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States was ratified, and also, all Acts and parts of Acts, of the General Assembly...'The United States of America,' is hereby dissolved." The resolution for secession was now cast and the delegates wasted little time in affirming their approval...

...Slave Power thought no less. On December twentieth, a special convention in South Carolina decreed "that the union now subsisting between South Carolina...'The United States of America' is hereby dissolved." Charleston celebrated in jubilee atmosphere, and one after another of the Southern states called conventions...