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The first published Confederate imprint of secession, from the Charleston Mercury.. The South Carolina Declaration of Secession, formally known as the Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union, was a proclamation issued on December 24, 1860, by the government of South Carolina to explain its reasons for seceding from the ...
Beginning with South Carolina in December 1860, eleven Southern states and one territory [2] both ratified an ordinance of secession and effected de facto secession by some regular or purportedly lawful means, including by state legislative action, special convention, or popular referendum, as sustained by state public opinion and mobilized ...
Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union
Special edition of the Charleston Mercury, announcing South Carolina's Ordinance of Secession on December 20, 1860. The Charleston Mercury was a secessionist newspaper in Charleston, South Carolina, founded by Henry L. Pinckney in 1819. He was its sole editor for fifteen years.
He was a son of Henry Middleton (1770–1846) and the former Mary Helen Hering (a daughter of Julines Hering, a planter on Jamaica).Williams and his two brothers, John Izard Middleton and Admiral Edward Middleton, were the trustees of their Father's entire estate. [1]
Sep. 1—AUSTIN — Starting Sept. 1, changes to saltwater fishing regulations will take effect for the 2023-24 license year. Changes include the required use of specialized devices on reef fish ...
William Henry Gist (August 22, 1807 – September 30, 1874) was the 68th Governor of South Carolina from 1858 to 1860 and a leader of the secession movement in South Carolina. [1] He was one of the signers of the Ordinance of Secession on December 20, 1860, which effectively launched the Confederate States of America .
A Democrat, he was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1842 to 1846 and of the South Carolina Senate from 1846 to 1852. After his single term as governor, the state constitution made him ineligible for immediate re-election. He was a signer of South Carolina's ordinance of secession in 1860.