Resolution & Ordinance of the State Convention of South Carolina (1852)
- Mark Shubert
- May 4
- 1 min read
South Carolina Convention April 26-30 1852.
Resolution and Ordinance approved on April 30, 1852
Resolution
Resolved by the people of South Carolina in Convention assembled, That the frequent violations of the Constitution of the United States by the Federal Government, and its encroachments upon the reserved rights of the sovereign States of this Union, especially in relation to slavery, amply justify this State, so far as any duty or obligation to her confederates is involved, in dissolving at once all political connection with her co-States ; and that she forbears the exercise of this manifest right of self-government from considerations of expediency only.
Ordinance
AN ORDINANCE to declare the right of this State to secede from the Federal Union. We the People of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained. That South Carolina, ia the exercise of her sovereign will, as an independent State, ac- ceded to the Federal Union, known as the United States of America; and that in the exercise of the same sovereign will, it is her right, without let, hindrance, or molestation from any power whatsoever, to secede from the said Federal Union ; and that for the sufficiency of the causes which may impel her to sucb separation, she is responsible alone, under God, to the tribunal of public opinion among the nations of the earth.
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