South Carolina Ordinance Secession 1860
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 23rd
day of May, in the year of our Lord 1788, hereby the Constitution of the United
States of America was ratified, and also all Acts and parts of Acts of the
General Assembly of the State ratifying the 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Constitution, are hereby repealed, and that the union now subsisting between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.