Annexed is the "Declaration of the causes which justify the secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union," an extended abstract of which has already been furnished by telegraph: The State of ...

The simple narrative today of the southern secession in 1860 and 1861 is that the southern states believed that the ...

South Carolina may resolve upon secession, -- may declare herself out of the Union, -- may withdraw her Senators and Representatives from Congress, -- refuse to permit her citizens to be ...

South Carolina secedes from the Union and was quickly followed by Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas. On April 12, 1861, Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South ...

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.