South Carolina Secession Convention

Name: Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union
Author: South Carolina Secession Convention

Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from… (1860)

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“Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union”, published in 1860, is a work by South Carolina Secession Convention. It explores elements such as the United States, Constitution and slaves.

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South Carolina Secession Convention, Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from… (1860)

“ We, therefore, the people of South Carolina, by our delegates, in Convention assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, have solemnly declared that the Union heretofore existing between this State and the other States of North America, is dissolved, and that the State of South Carolina has resumed her position among the nations of the world, as a separate and independent State; with full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do. ”

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South Carolina Secession Convention, Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from… (1860)

“ The Guaranties of the Constitution will then no longer exist; the equal rights of the States will be lost. The slaveholding States will no longer have the power of self-government, or self-protection, and the Federal Government will have become their enemy. ”

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South Carolina Secession Convention, Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from… (1860)

“ They further solemnly declared that whenever any "form of government becomes destructive of the ends for which it was established, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government." ”

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South Carolina Secession Convention, Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from… (1860)

“ The Constitution of the United States, in its 4th Article, provides as follows:
"No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up, on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due." ”

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South Carolina Secession Convention, Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from… (1860)

“ In the State of New York even the right of transit for a slave has been denied by her tribunals; and the States of Ohio and Iowa have refused to surrender to justice fugitives charged with murder, and with inciting servile insurrection in the State of Virginia. Thus the constitutional compact has been deliberately broken and disregarded by the non-slaveholding States, and the consequence follows that South Carolina is released from her obligation. ”

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South Carolina Secession Convention, Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from… (1860)

“ These ends it endeavored to accomplish by a Federal Government, in which each State was recognized as an equal, and had separate control over its own institutions. The right of property in slaves was recognized by giving to free persons distinct political rights, by giving them the right to represent, and burthening them with direct taxes for three-fifths of their slaves; by authorizing the importation of slaves for twenty years; and by stipulating for the rendition of fugitives from labor. ”

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South Carolina Secession Convention, Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from… (1860)

“ Sectional interest and animosity will deepen the irritation, and all hope of remedy is rendered vain, by the fact that public opinion at the North has invested a great political error with the sanctions of a more erroneous religious belief. ”

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South Carolina Secession Convention, Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from… (1860)

“ New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, to be FREE, SOVEREIGN AND INDEPENDENT STATES; that he treats them as such; and for himself, his heirs and successors, relinquishes all claims to the government, propriety and territorial rights of the same and every part thereof."
Thus were established the two great principles asserted by the Colonies, namely: the right of a State to govern itself ”

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