Portal:South Carolina Secession Convention
Meeting from 1860-62, and formed following the election of Abraham Lincoln to President of the United States, the South Carolina Secession Convention published three documents detailing and justifying the state's secession from the Union, along with a journal of reports and ordinances passed by the Convention.
Works
- Ordinance of Secession (20 December 1860)
- Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union (24 December 1860)
- The Address of the People of South Carolina assembled in Convention, to the People of the Slaveholding States of the United States (24 December 1860)
- Journal of the Convention of the People of South Carolina, Held in 1860, 1861, and 1862, together with the Ordinances, Reports, Resolutions, etc. (1862)