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 [is] hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other states, under the name of The United States of America, is hereby dissolved."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

...said Constitution, are hereby repealed, and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States under the name of the United States of America is hereby dissolved. former Confederate States had incorporated in their constitutions a clause surrendering the right to...

...said Constitution, are hereby repealed, and that the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved.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

...days of discussion, the convention declared that "the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, 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 of December 20,...

...Convention assembled, do declare and ordain . . . that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and the other States, under the name of the "United States of America" is hereby dissolved. Ordinance of Secession, 20 December 1860 -HE DEFEAT of the British at the Battle of New Orleans was...

...Ordinance of Secession on December 20, 1860. "And that the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and other states, 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...

...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 December 20, 1860, South Carolina was followed by Mississippi (January 19, 1861), Louisiana...

...its amendments were thereby repealed, "and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of 'The United States of America,' is hereby dissolved."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

...1860, a state convention voted unanimously that "the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, 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. To South Carolinians...

...said Constitution, are hereby 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. Reduced to its essentials, theirs was the familiar American argument that no people may be governed...