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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 4: seditious movements in Congress.--Secession in South Carolina, and its effects. (search)
titutions? There was, to them, no sanctity in oaths; and so they formed their Convention without oaths, in defiance of the Constitution of South Carolina. They elected their temporary chairman permanent President of their body, and appointed B. F. Arthur the clerk. They well knew that the Constitution of South Carolina declared their Convention, when organized, to be an unlawful assemblage, and that their acts could have no legal effect. If secession had been lawful, the ordinances of those Isaac D. Wilson.W. B. Rowell.R. W. Barnwell.L. W. Spratt.A. Baxter Springs. John M. Timmons.Chesley D. Evans.Jos. Dan'l Pope.Williams Middleton.A. I. Barron. Francis Hugh Wardlaw.Wm. W. Harllee.C. P. Brown.F. D. Richardson.  Attest, Benjamin F. Arthur, Clerk of the Convention. the President of the Convention (Jamison) stepped forward, exhibited the instrument to the people, read it, and then said, The Ordinance of Secession has been signed and ratified, and I proclaim the State of South