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 the other States. THE UNION IS DISSOLVED!
Original passage & context
"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 [...] THE UNION IS DISSOLVED!"
The Rhett family's Charleston Mercury — the organ of immediate, separate-state secession — stopped its press to set this broadside within the hour of the vote. It is the movement's triumphant bulletin; the sober legal act itself is the next card. Verified against the Mississippi State University (Scholars Junction) reproduction of the original single-sheet extra; banner lines joined with [...].
Read it in the original — Charleston Mercury Extra, Dec 20, 1860 ↗
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