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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 ...
South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union in December 1860, and was one of the founding member states of the Confederacy in February 1861. The bombardment of the beleaguered U.S. garrison at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor on April 12, 1861, is generally recognized as the first military engagement of the war.
Humorist George William Bagby was a Richmond, Virginia correspondent of the Charleston Mercury during the Civil War era and "covered the politics of the war and made a reputation for Hermes, his pen name, as a fearless writer who would criticize Confederate General Robert E. Lee as easily as Confederate President Jefferson Davis".
The declaration laid out the primary reasoning behind South Carolina’s secession from the Union as an “increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the Institution of ...
Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union
And then, the Civil War. South Carolina seceded first, and arguably suffered the most toward the end of the Union’s victory. North Carolina was the last state to secede, and arguably the one ...
Returning to South Carolina, Miles was elected as a delegate to the South Carolina secession convention. Miles was for immediate action. On December 17, fearing that even a few days of delay could be critical, he opposed the relocation of the convention from Columbia to Charleston due to a smallpox outbreak.
North Carolina ratified the United States Constitution on Nov. 21, 1789, after the new government was seated under the Constitution and sent the Bill of Rights for ratification by the States. It ...