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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Acts and parts of Acts of the General Assembly of this State, ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of The United States of America," is hereby dissolved.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.
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