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CIVIL WAR, SOUTH CAROLINA SECESSION]. SOUTH CAROLINA CONVENTION. 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'...The Union is Dissolved! [Charleston, S.C., 20 December 1860]. Folio broadside, 600 x 308mm. (236 x 12.1/8in.), originally folded horizontally and vertically, small chip to lower left blank corner, a few nearly invisible small tears, minor marginal defects , otherwise in excellent condition for this fragile piece. Crandall 1888; Ray O. Hummell, Southeastern Broadsides Before 1877 no. 2434 (locating six copies); Sabin 87439; Streeter sale 1271.AN UNUSUALLY FINE COPY. A VERY FINE COPY OF THE FIRST CONFEDERATE IMPRINT: ISSUED FIFTEEN MINUTES AFTER SOUTH CAROLINA'S VOTE TO SECEDE FROM THE UNION The historic announcement of Secession: "We the People of the State of South Carolina, in Convention Assembled, do declare and ordain...that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of 'The United States of America,' is hereby dissolved..." First printing of the secession ordinance, passed by a state convention called by the Governor Pickens on December 20. It was the first such secession resolution enacted, and South Carolina's action was followed in close succession by Mississippi (January 9), Florida (January 10), Alabama (January 11), Georgia (January 19), Louisiana January 26), Texas (February 1), Virginia (April 17), Arkansas (May 6), North Carolina (May 20) and Tennessee (June 8).