Charleston Mercury Extra: The Union Is Dissolved

Creator

Charleston Mercury

Files

Creator Role

printer

Description

The Charleston Mercury's "The Union is Dissolved" broadside was the first Confederate publication as South Carolina was the first state to secede. It went to press 15 minutes after the secession ordinance was passed.

Description Source

The Price of Freedom: Americans at War. https://amhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/collection/object.asp?ID=87 (accessed June 7, 2018)

Transcription

CHARLESTON MERCURY EXTRA: Passed unanimously at 1.15 o'clock, P.M. December 20TH, 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Acts and parts of Acts of the General Assembly of this State, ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of The United States of America," is hereby dissolved. THE UNION IS DISSOLVE!

Contributor

Justice Frank J. and Virginia Williams

Earliest

1860-12-20

Latest

1860-12-20

Approximate Creation Date

1860-12-20

Measurement

24 X 11 3/4 inches

Materials and Techniques Display

ink on paper

Inscription

Recto, at top: CHARLESTON / MERCURY / EXTRA: recto, at bottom: THE / UNION / IS / DISSOLVED!

Subjects

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865

Work Type

broadside

Class

Ephemera

Preferred Citation

[Physical ID#]: [Title], Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana, Mississippi State University Libraries.

Rights

Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.

ID

5673

Digital ID

FVW_05673

Current Location

Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States)

Repository

Mississippi State University Libraries.

Digital Publisher

Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version).

Contact Information

For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.msstate.edu.