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 [is] hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina...under the name of The United States of America, is hereby dissolved."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

...General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of said Constitution, are hereby repealed, and that the Union now subsisting between South Carolina...under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved. (Signed) DF JAMISON, President. (And members of entire Convention.) Attest : BF ARTHUR,...

...election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency. After four days of discussion, the convention declared that "the union now subsisting between South Carolina...under the name of The United States of America' is hereby dissolved." The declaration passed by a vote of 169 to o and was formally signed on the evening...

...General Assembly of this State ratify the amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed, and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina...under the name of the United States of America is hereby dissolved. former Confederate States had incorporated in their constitutions a clause surrendering...

...forerunner in the states rights declarations, passed an Ordinance of Secession on December 20, 1860. "And that the Union now subsisting between South Carolina...under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved."37 Not all of the southerners felt inclined to leave the Union because the "Black...

...Emergency Powers In 1860, following Lincoln's election to the presidency, South Carolina's legislature passed unanimously an ordinance declaring that "the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and the other States, under the name of the United States of America is hereby dissolved." Seceding on...

...northwest across the harbor lay Charleston. Here on December 20, 1860, a state convention voted unanimously that "the union now subsisting between South Carolina...under the name of 'The United States of America,' is hereby dissolved." During the rest of that day and all through the night, jubilant crowds celebrated....

...of the Constitution and all subsequent ratifications of its amendments were thereby repealed, "and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina...under the name of 'The United States of America,' is hereby dissolved." By that evening the committee members were agreed on the text and ready to report...

...General Assembly of this State, ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina...under the name of 'The United States of America,' is hereby dissolved." In this political forum, the resolution represented a rare piece of legislation...

...General Assembly of this State, ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina...under the name of "The United States of America," is hereby dissolved. Reduced to its essentials, theirs was the familiar American argument that no people...