EXTREMELY RARE! CHARLESTON MERCURY BROADSIDE — “UNION IS DISSOLVED”

$20,000.00

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Item Code: 846-85

Printed broadside measuring 12.5 x 23. Broadside has been professionally conserved. Light chipping round the margins repaired. Folds and stains removed. (The final four photographs above show the broadside's condition prior to conservation.) Text:

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

Other states united with her under the compact entitled “The

Constitution of the United States of America.”

We. The people of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, it is hereby 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 eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also, all Acts and parts of Acts of the General Assembly of this state, ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of “The United States of America,” is hereby dissolved.

UNION

IS

DISSOLVED!

South Carolina was the first southern state to secede from the Union. This broadside declares one of the momentous events in American history. An incredible rare and precious collectible.

 

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