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"The State of South Carolina," as an organized State, can speak only through the regular departments of the State Government. The act of secession ... to dissolve the Union -- to break up the ...

He said: "The secession of South Carolina is not an event of a day ... He tried to get the South out of the Union on the Tariff question, but failed. He immediately started the Slavery issue ...

The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many southerners felt that there was no longer a place for them in the Union. On December 20, 1860, South Carolina seceded.

Fast-forward 45 years to Dec. 20, 1860, when South Carolina cut its ... West Virginia seceded from Virginia because it opposed Virginia seceding from the Union. Secession, or the threat of it ...

Settled by the English in 1670, the colony named for King Charles I was split into North and South Carolina in ... the first Southern state to secede from the Union, adding a palmetto tree to ...