CIVIL WAR – SOUTH CAROLINA ACT OF SECESSION. The State of South Carolina. At a Convention of the People of the State ... begun and held at Columbia [17-20 December 1860]. An Ordinance to dissolve the Union between the State of South Carolina and the other States ... done at Charleston, 20 December 1860. Charleston, S.C.: Evans & Cogswell, n.d. [c. March 1861]. South Carolina votes to secede from the union: a rare broadside, one of the first Confederate imprints. One of only 200 copies printed, an imposing, large-format, lithographic facsimile of the original engrossed and signed manuscript Act of Secession, carefully prepared from the original engrossed document. The document features facsimile signatures of D.F. Jamison, President of the Convention, and 169 delegates to the Secession Convention convened by Governor Pickens (even the ink blots which mar the original are carefully reproduced by the lithographers). The historic resolution, which revoked South Carolina's ratification of the U.S. Constitution, was largely the work of Robert Barnwell Rhett, editor of the Charleston Mercury , which printed a well-known broadside announcement of the vote, the day it was taken, proclaiming "The Union is Dissolved!". The resolution was passed unanimously at 1:15 p.m. on 20 December. It was accompanied by a longer, legalistic Declaration of Causes, maintaining that South Carolina was justified in secession as the Northern States had ceased to comply with their obligations under the Constitution, especially as concerned slavery and the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law. Shortly after adoption of the Ordinance, Evans & Cogswell, printers to the convention, were asked to prepare a copy for use by the members. As reported in the March 28, 1861 entry of the Journal of the Convention of the People of South Carolina , the work was done "in a style creditable to the art; and by a careful comparison with the original, the Committee [on Printing] find it to bear a very notable similarity to it." Satisfied with the printer's proof, the Convention immediately authorized Evans & Cogswell to print 200 copies of the Ordinance , to be distributed as directed by the President of the Convention. Very rare : according to ABPC, only two other examples have sold at auction in at least a quarter century (one copy sold at Christie's, New York 24 May 2002, lot 33, $55,000 and 3 December 2007, lot 110, $46,600). Crandall 1887 (cites 2 copies); Parrish & Willingham 3794 (11 institutional copies); Sabin 87444; see J. A. May and J. Reynolds Faunt, South Carolina Secedes , 1960, pp. 20, 36-37. Folio broadside (864 x 660mm). Lithographed in black ink on heavy wove paper (marginal losses at top left and near bottom left corner well clear of text, a few marginal tears, backed with archival paper).
CIVIL WAR – SOUTH CAROLINA ACT OF SECESSION. The State of South Carolina. At a Convention of the People of the State ... begun and held at Columbia [17-20 December 1860]. An Ordinance to dissolve the Union between the State of South Carolina and the other States ... done at Charleston, 20 December 1860. Charleston, S.C.: Evans & Cogswell, n.d. [c. March 1861]. South Carolina votes to secede from the union: a rare broadside, one of the first Confederate imprints. One of only 200 copies printed, an imposing, large-format, lithographic facsimile of the original engrossed and signed manuscript Act of Secession, carefully prepared from the original engrossed document. The document features facsimile signatures of D.F. Jamison, President of the Convention, and 169 delegates to the Secession Convention convened by Governor Pickens (even the ink blots which mar the original are carefully reproduced by the lithographers). The historic resolution, which revoked South Carolina's ratification of the U.S. Constitution, was largely the work of Robert Barnwell Rhett, editor of the Charleston Mercury , which printed a well-known broadside announcement of the vote, the day it was taken, proclaiming "The Union is Dissolved!". The resolution was passed unanimously at 1:15 p.m. on 20 December. It was accompanied by a longer, legalistic Declaration of Causes, maintaining that South Carolina was justified in secession as the Northern States had ceased to comply with their obligations under the Constitution, especially as concerned slavery and the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law. Shortly after adoption of the Ordinance, Evans & Cogswell, printers to the convention, were asked to prepare a copy for use by the members. As reported in the March 28, 1861 entry of the Journal of the Convention of the People of South Carolina , the work was done "in a style creditable to the art; and by a careful comparison with the original, the Committee [on Printing] find it to bear a very notable similarity to it." Satisfied with the printer's proof, the Convention immediately authorized Evans & Cogswell to print 200 copies of the Ordinance , to be distributed as directed by the President of the Convention. Very rare : according to ABPC, only two other examples have sold at auction in at least a quarter century (one copy sold at Christie's, New York 24 May 2002, lot 33, $55,000 and 3 December 2007, lot 110, $46,600). Crandall 1887 (cites 2 copies); Parrish & Willingham 3794 (11 institutional copies); Sabin 87444; see J. A. May and J. Reynolds Faunt, South Carolina Secedes , 1960, pp. 20, 36-37. Folio broadside (864 x 660mm). Lithographed in black ink on heavy wove paper (marginal losses at top left and near bottom left corner well clear of text, a few marginal tears, backed with archival paper).
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