[Civil War] — [South Carolina]The State of South Carolina. At a convention of the people of the State...An ordinance to dissolve the Union between the State of South Carolina and the other States...under the Compact entitled 'The Constitution of the United States of America'....done at Charleston, 20 December 1860. Charleston: Evans & Cogswell, [late March or early April 1861]
Single sheet (857 x 679 mm). Lithographic broadside. South Carolina calls for secession. The very rare lithographic facsimile of the South Carolina Act of Secession, which precipitated the beginning of the Civil War and is thus one of the earliest Confederate imprints. One of only 200 copies printed, the present lot was found among the papers of William Dunlap Simpson, a prominent South Carolina legislator and governor. Simpson was a lawyer who served two terms in the South Carolina House of Representatives and one in the state Senate. He acted as a lieutenant colonel during the Civil War and was a delegate to the Confederate State House in 1863. After the Civil War, Simpson was elected lieutenant governor, then governor for a brief time before serving ten years as Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court. This large-format, contemporary engraving of the original engrossed and signed manuscript document presents the Act of Secession as it was passed and signed in the South Carolina State House. So faithfully executed, it also reproduces the ink blots present on the original document. The historic resolution, which revoked South Carolina's ratification of the United States Constitution, was largely the work of Robert Barnwell Rhett, editor of the Charleston Mercury, which printed a well-known secession broadside of its own, proclaiming: "The Union Is Dissolved!" The secession resolution was passed unanimously at 1:15 p.m. on 20 December, after which Jamison said: "The Ordinance of Secession has been signed and ratified, and I proclaim the State of South Carolina an Independent Commonwealth."
An exceedingly rare and important Civil War document, once belonging to a South Carolina governor and Civil War officer, with only eleven copies known in institutions according to Parrish & Willingham, and even fewer in auction records.
REFERENCE: Parrish & Willingham 3794; Crandall 1887; Sabin 87444; Journal of the Convention of the People of South Carolina 204, 543
[Civil War] — [South Carolina]The State of South Carolina. At a convention of the people of the State...An ordinance to dissolve the Union between the State of South Carolina and the other States...under the Compact entitled 'The Constitution of the United States of America'....done at Charleston, 20 December 1860. Charleston: Evans & Cogswell, [late March or early April 1861]
Single sheet (857 x 679 mm). Lithographic broadside. South Carolina calls for secession. The very rare lithographic facsimile of the South Carolina Act of Secession, which precipitated the beginning of the Civil War and is thus one of the earliest Confederate imprints. One of only 200 copies printed, the present lot was found among the papers of William Dunlap Simpson, a prominent South Carolina legislator and governor. Simpson was a lawyer who served two terms in the South Carolina House of Representatives and one in the state Senate. He acted as a lieutenant colonel during the Civil War and was a delegate to the Confederate State House in 1863. After the Civil War, Simpson was elected lieutenant governor, then governor for a brief time before serving ten years as Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court. This large-format, contemporary engraving of the original engrossed and signed manuscript document presents the Act of Secession as it was passed and signed in the South Carolina State House. So faithfully executed, it also reproduces the ink blots present on the original document. The historic resolution, which revoked South Carolina's ratification of the United States Constitution, was largely the work of Robert Barnwell Rhett, editor of the Charleston Mercury, which printed a well-known secession broadside of its own, proclaiming: "The Union Is Dissolved!" The secession resolution was passed unanimously at 1:15 p.m. on 20 December, after which Jamison said: "The Ordinance of Secession has been signed and ratified, and I proclaim the State of South Carolina an Independent Commonwealth."
An exceedingly rare and important Civil War document, once belonging to a South Carolina governor and Civil War officer, with only eleven copies known in institutions according to Parrish & Willingham, and even fewer in auction records.
REFERENCE: Parrish & Willingham 3794; Crandall 1887; Sabin 87444; Journal of the Convention of the People of South Carolina 204, 543
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