Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union

The  was a document agreed to by representatives of the people of the state of South Carolina in the city of Charleston on 24th December 1860. As the title suggests, it gave cause for the state to withdraw from the Constitution of the United States, and therefore the United States of America. As noted by Paul LeVal in an unsent 14th February 1861 letter to Will Johnson, it allowed South Carolina to be the first state to secede, and was a necessary precondition to forming the Confederate States of America. (TN: Blood and Hope)
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