Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina.
- Creator(s):
- [South Carolina Convention].
- Title:
- Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina.
- Description:
- Abraham Lincoln’s election as president in November 1860 lit the fuse of southern secession. Southerners understood that a united North could threaten the future of slavery in the United States, and many were alarmed by Lincoln’s consistent moral condemnation of the institution. Since the 1850s, southern political leaders had threatened to leave the Union to safeguard slavery. When faced with an anti-slavery president in the White House, the southern states began seceding from the country, with South Carolina leaving first on December 24, 1860.
- Source:
- Photograph by Vincent Dilio. Courtesy of David M. Rubenstein.
- Citation:
- [South Carolina Convention]. Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina. Charleston: Evans & Cogswell, 1860.