THE LOUISIANA ORDINANCE OF SECESSION

Lot 232
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Lot 232 | THE LOUISIANA ORDINANCE OF SECESSION
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$ 150 000 – 200 000
THE LOUISIANA ORDINANCE OF SECESSION
MOUTON, Alexandre (1804-1885). Manuscript document signed (“A. Mouton”) as President of the Convention, Baton Rouge, 25 January 1861. “The State of Louisiana. An Ordinance To dissolve the Union between the State of Louisiana and the other States united with her under the compact entitled ‘the Constitution of the United States.’”

Three pages, 472 x 302mm bifolium. Countersigned by John Thomas WHEAT, Jr. (1830-1862), (“J. Tho: Wheat”) as Secretary of the Convention.
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