South Carolina's Ordinance of Secession
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We,
the People of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled
do declare and ordain, and it is herby 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
eight eight, whereby the Constitution of the United State 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are here by repealed; and that the union now subsisting between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 “The United
States of America,” is hereby dissolved.
Done at Charleston, the
twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty
D.F. Jamison Delegate from
Barnwell and
President of the Convention
Abbeville: Thomas Chiles Perrin, Edward Noble, J. H. Wilson, Thomas Thomson,
David Louis Wardlaw, John Alfred Calhoun.
All-Saints: John Izard Middleton, Benjamin E. Session.
Anderson: J. N. Whitner, James L. Orr, J. P. Reed, R.F. Simpson, Benjamin Franklin
Mauldin.
Barnwell: Lewis Malone Ayer, Jr., W. Peronneau Finley, J. J. Brabham, Benjamin
W. Lawton, D. F. Jamison.
Chester: John McKee, Thomas W. Moore, Richard Woods, A. Q. Dunovant.
Chesterfield: John A. Inglis, Henry Mciver, Stephen Jackson.
Christ Church: W. Pickney Shingler, Peter P. Bonneau.
Clarendon: John P. Richardson, John J. Ingram.
Darlington: Edgar W. Charles, Julias A. Dargan, Isaac D. Wilson, John M. Timmons.
Edgefield: Francis Hugh Wardlaw, R. G. M. Dunovant, James Parsons Carroll,
William Gregg, Andrew J. Hammond, James Tompkins, James C. Smyly.
Fairfield: John Hugh Means, William Strother Lyles, Henry Campbell Davis, John
Buchanan.
Greenville: James C. Furman, P.E. Duncan, W. K. Easley, James Harrison, W.
H. Campbell.
Horry: Thomas W. Beaty, William J. Ellis.
Kershaw: T. J. Withers, James C. Chestnut, Jr.
Lancaster: R. L. Crawford, W. C. Cauthen, D. P. Robinson.
Laurens: H. C. Young, Y. W. Garlington, John D. Williams, W. D. Watts, Thomas
Wier.
Lexington: H. I. Caughman, John C. Geiger, Paul Quatlebaum.
Marion: W. B. Rowell, Chesley D. Evans, William W. Harllee, A. W. Bethea.
Marlboro: E. W. Goodwin, William D. Johnson, Alex McLeod.
Newberry: John P. Kinard, Robert Moorman, Joseph Caldwell, Simeon Fair.
Orangeburgh: Thomas Worth Glover, Lawrence M. Keitt, Donald Rowe Barton.
Pickens: William Hunter, Andrew F. Lewis, Robert A. Thompson, William S. Grisham,
John Maxwell.
Prince William's: John E. Frampton, W. Ferguson Hutson.
Richland: W. F. DeSaussure, William Hopkins, James H. Adams, Maxcy Gregg, John
H. Kinsler.
St. Andrew's: Ephraim M. Clark, Alex. H. Brown.
St. Bartholomew's: E. St. P. Bellinger, Merrick E. Carn, E. R. Henderson, Peter
Stokes.
St. George's, Dorchester: Daniel Flood, David C. Appleby.
St. Helena: R. W. Barnwell, Joseph Daniel Pope.
St. James's, Goose Creek: John M. Shingler, C. P. Brown.
St. James's, Santee: Daniel DuPree, A. Mazyck.
St. John's, Berkeley: William Cain, P. G. Snowden.
St. John's, Colleton: George W. Seabrook, Sr., John Jenkins.
St. Luke's: R. J. Davant, E. M. Seabrook.
St. Matthew's: John J. Wannamaker.
St. Paul's: Elias B. Scott, Joseph E. Jenkins.
St. Peter's: Langdon Cheves, George Rhodes.
St. Philip's and St. Michael's: A. G. Magrath, William Porcher Miles, John
Townsend, Robert N. Gourdin, H. W. Connor, Theodore D. Wagner, R. Barnwell
Rhett, C. G. Memminger, Gabriel Manigault, John Julius Pringle Smith, Isaac
W. Hayne, John H. Honour, Richard DeTreville, Thomas M. Hanckel, A. W. Burnet,
Thomas Y. Simons, L. W. Spratt, Williams Middleton, R. D. Richardson, B. H.
Rutledge, Edward McCrady, Francis J. Porcher.
St. Stephen's: T. L. Gourdin, John S. Palmer.
St. Thomas's and St. Dennis's: John L. Nowell, John S. O'Hear.
Spartanburg: John G. Landrum, B. B. Foster, Benjamin F. Kilgo, J. H. Carlisle,
Simpson Bobo, William Curtis.
Sumter: H. D. Green, Matthew P. Mayes, Thomas Reese English, Sr., Albertus
Chambers Spain.
Union: J. M. Gadberry, J. S. Sims, William H. Gist, James Jefferies.
Williamsburg: Anthony W. Dozier, John G. Pressley, R. C. Logan.
Winyaw: Francis S. Parker, Benjamin Faneuil Dunkin, Samuel Taylor Atkinson,
Alex. M. Forster.
York: William Blackburn Wilson, Robert T. Allison, Samuel Rainey, A. Baxter
Springs, A. I . Barron.
Attest: Benj. J. Arthur, Clerk of the Convention
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