{"id":99336,"date":"2020-12-20T01:13:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T07:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=99336"},"modified":"2020-12-18T12:07:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T18:07:03","slug":"secession-ordinance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/secession-ordinance\/","title":{"rendered":"Secession Ordinance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"right\"><em>Charleston Mercury<\/em>\u00a0 broadside, December 20, 1860<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/exit78\/50726712906\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px 23px; border: 0px currentcolor; float: right; display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"Secession ordinance of South Carolina\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Secession-ordinance.jpg\" alt=\"Secession ordinance of South Carolina\" width=\"162\" height=\"317\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>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Acts and parts of Acts of the General Assembly of this State, ratifying amendment of the said Constitution, are here by repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of &#8220;The United States of America,&#8221; is hereby dissolved.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The Charleston Mercury\u2019s \u201cThe Union is Dissolved\u201d 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. The editors commented, \u201cWithin a very few minutes after the announcement of the secession vote, our messengers arrived . . . in less than fifteen minutes our Extras, containing the long looked for Ordinance, were being thrown off by fast presses and distributed among the eager multitude that thronged under the great banner of the \u2018Southern Confederacy.\u2019 As the brief and expressive words of the ordinance were read from our bulletin by the crowd, cheer after cheer went up in honor of the glorious event.\u201d (National Museum of American History)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charleston Mercury\u00a0 broadside, December 20, 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 twenty-third day of May in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and eighty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,17,24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-99336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-civil-war","7":"category-misc","8":"category-news-of-the-day"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}