...Secession." This ordinance declared e°' ' -LouU "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," to be dissolved. By February 1, 1861, six other states — Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia,...

...Passing to the South we see that acts are substituted for words. Let u's see what South Carolina did. AN ORDINANCE to dissolve the Union between the State...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,...

...later the convention adopted Rhodes's unanimously an "ordinance to dissolve the Union between u"'ted the state of South Carolina and other states united...entitled ' The Constitution of the United States of America.' " It also adopted a " Declaration of the immediate causes which induce and justify the secession...

...formal report, submitting with it for the consideration of the convention the following measure : " An ordinance to dissolve the Union between the State...entitled, ' The Constitution of the United States of America. ' " We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and...

...independent Southern Union, based upon negro slavery. The Charleston convention argued in an address State of South Carolina and other States united with...entitled ' the Constitution of the United States of America.' " It read as follows: "We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in convention assembled,...

...them from her crisis of 1861. "AN ORDINANCE: ' ' To dissolve the union between the State of Louisiana and other States united with her under the compact entitled the Constitution of the United States : " We, the people of the State of Louisiana, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it...

...Charleston, where (appropriately) on December 20, 1860, an Ordinance of Secession was passed reading thus: "An Ordinance, " To dissolve the Union between the...entitled ' The Constitution of the United States of America.' " We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and...

...Passing to the South we see that acts are substituted for words. Let us see what South Carolina did. AN ORDINANCE to dissolve the Union between the State...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,...

...twentieth of December, 1860, "seceded ; " — that is, declared through her State convention, that "the union between the State of South Carolina and...entitled ' The Constitution of the United States of America ' is dissolved." The people of South Carolina were not asked to vote upon this action ; the...

...called: "An Ordinance to Dissolve the Union between the State of Mississippi and Other United States with Her under the Compact Entitled, ' The Constitution of the United States of America.' " In short, Mississippi seceded, in an hour freighted with exultant confidence, with tears,...