...and passed an ordinance to the effect that "the union now subsisting between South Carolina and the other States, under the name of the 'United States of America,' is hereby dissolved." Other states followed: Mississippi, January 9, 1861: Florida, January 10; Alabama,...

...unanimously passed an ordinance declaring that "the union now subsisting between South Carolina and the other States, under the name of the 'United States of America, ' is hereby dissolved. " As stated in a Declaration of Causes passed on December 24, at the heart of South...

...I860.26 On the 20th instant, the Convention at Charleston passed unanimously an ordinance declaring that "the Union now subsisting between South Carolina...name of the United States of America, is dissolved." A copy of the Ordinance has been transmitted to Your Lordship by Mr. Consul Bunch27 in a dispatch dated...

...replied Gonzales. The next day, the Ordinance of Secession was approved by the convention, declaring that the "union now subsisting between South Carolina...under the name of The United States of America' is hereby dissolved."" The Convention sent a commission to Washington, DC, "to treat with the Government...

...whereby the Constitution of the United States of American was ratified, and also all Acts and ports of Acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying...under the name of the United States of America is hereby dissolved. The ordinance was taken up and passed by an unanimous vote of 109 members at 114...

...General Assembly of this State, ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby appealed ; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina...under the name of "The United States of America," is hereby dissolved. — Pamphlet, printed by order of the Convention, 1860, p. II. 1860. Dec. 24. SOUTH...

...stated, "We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain that the union now subsisting between South Carolina...under the name of 'The United States of America' is hereby dissolved. " In quick order, then, six other states (Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia,...

...General Assembly of the State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed, and the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and...under the name of the United States of America is hereby dissolved." The convention was fully prepared to vote and the ordinance was passed unanimously....

...and the same are hereby, repealed and abrogated ; and that the Union now subsisting between Louisiana and other States, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved. "We do further declare and ordain, that the State of Louisiana hereby resumes all...

...special convention meeting in Charleston, resolved that "the Union now subsisting between South Caroline and other States, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved."11 Soon other states in the South followed South Carolina out of the Union. And then...