South Carolina's Ordinance of Secession

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December 20, 1860

AN ORDINANCE

To dissolve the Union between the State of South Carolina and other States united with her under the compact entitled “The Constitution of the United States of America.”

We, the People of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, 

That the Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also, all Acts and parts of Acts of the General Assembly of this State, ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of “The United States of America,” is hereby dissolved.

D. F. JAMISON, Del. from Barnwell, and Pres’t Convention.

Thos. Chiles Perrin,

Edw. Noble,

J. H. Wilson,

Thos. Thomson,

David Lewis Wardlaw,

Jno. Alfred Calhoun,

John Izard Middleton,

Benjamin E. Sessions,

J. N. Whitner,

James L. Orr,

J. P. Reed,

R. F. Simpson,

Benjamin Franklin Mauldin,

Lewis Malone Ayer, Jr.,

W. Peronneau Finley,

J. J. Brabham,

Benj. W. Lawton,

Jno. McKee,

Thomas W. Moore,

Richard Woods,

A. Q. Dunovant,

John A. Inglis,

Henry McIver,

Stephen Jackson,

W. Pinckney Shingler,

Peter P. Bonneau,

John P. Richardson,

John L. Manning,

John J. Ingram,

Edgar W. Charles,

Julius A. Dargan,

Isaac D. Wilson,

John M. Timmons,

Francis Hugh Wardlaw,

R. G. M. Dunovant,

James Parsons Carroll,

Wm. Gregg,

Andrew J. Hammond,

James Tompkins,

James C. Smyly,

John Hugh Means,

William Strother Lyles,

Henry Campbell Davis,

Jno. Buchanan,

James C. Furman,

P. E. Duncan,

W. K. Easley,

James Harrison,

W. H. Campbell,

T. J. Withers,

James Chesnut, Jr.,

Joseph Brevard Kershaw,

Thos. W. Beaty,

Wm. J. Ellis,

R. L. Crawford,

W. C. Cauthen,

D. P. Robinson,

H. C. Young,

H. W. Garlington,

John D. Williams,

W. D. Watts,

Thos. Wier,

H. I. Caughman,

John C. Geiger,

Paul Quattlebaum,

W. B. Rowell,

Chesley D. Evans,

Wm. W. Harllee,

A. W. Bethea,

E. W. Goodwin,

William D. Johnson,

Alex. McLeod,

John P. Kinard,

Robert Moorman,

Joseph Caldwell,

Simeon Fair,

Thomas Worth Glover,

Lawrence M. Keitt,

Donald Rowe Barton,

Wm. Hunter,

Andrew F. Lewis,

Robt. A. Thompson,

William S. Grisham,

John Maxwell,

Jno. E. Frampton,

W. Ferguson Hutson,

W. F. De Saussure,

William Hopkins,

James H. Adams,

Maxcy Gregg,

John H. Kinsler,

Ephraim M. Clarke,

Alex. H. Brown,

E. S. P. Bellinger,

Merrick E. Carn,

E. R. Henderson,

Peter Stokes,

Daniel Flud,

David C. Appleby,

R. W. Barnwell,

Jos. Dan’l Pope,

C. P. Brown,

John M. Shingler,

Daniel Du Pre,

A. Mazyck,

William Cain,

P. G. Snowden,

Geo. W. Seabrook,

John Jenkins,

R. J. Davant,

E. M. Seabrook,

John J. Wannamaker,

Elias B. Scott,

Joseph E. Jenkins,

Langdon Cheves,

George Rhodes,

A. G. Magrath,

Wm. Porcher Miles,

John Townsend,

Robert N. Gourdin,

H. W. Conner,

Theodore D. Wagner,

R. Barnwell Rhett,

C. G. Memminger,

Gabriel Manigault,

John Julius Pringle Smith,

Isaac W. Hayne,

Jno. H. Honour,

Rich’d De Treville,

Thos. M. Hanckel,

A. W. Burnett,

Thos. Y. Simons,

L. W. Spratt,

Williams Middleton,

F. D. Richardson,

B. H. Rutledge,

Edward McCrady,

Francis J. Porcher,

T. L. Gourdin,

John S. Palmer,

John L. Nowell,

John S. O’Hear,

John G. Landrum,

B. B. Foster,

Benjamin F. Kilgore,

Jas. H. Carlisle,

Simpson Bobo,

Wm. Curtis,

H. D. Green,

Matthew P. Mayes,

Thomas Reese English, Sr.

Albertus Chambers Spain,

J. M. Gadberry,

J. S. Sims,

Wm. H. Gist,

James Jefferies,

Anthony W. Dozier,

John G. Pressley,

R. C. Logan,

Francis S. Parker,

Benj. Faneuil Dunkin,

Samuel Taylor Atkinson,

Alex. M. Forster,

Wm. Blackburn Wilson,

Robert T. Allison,

Samuel Rainey,

A. Baxter Springs,

A. I. Barron,

A. T. Darby.

Attest: BENJ. F. ARTHUR,

 Clerk of the Convention.