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The South Carolina Declaration of Independence

Lot 155
25.04.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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ID 743815
Lot 155 | The South Carolina Declaration of Independence
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$ 20 000 – 30 000
Declaration of Independence of the State of South Carolina, in Convention, at the City of Charleston, December 20, 1860. An Ordinance To dissolve the Union between the State of South Carolina and other States united with her under the compact entitled "The Constitution of the United States of America." … Charleston, S.C.: Evans & Cogswell [1860].The South Carolina Declaration of Independence—the opening of the "secession winter" and the prelude to the Civil War. A rare issue, printed shortly after the first state convention to vote for secession in the wake of Abraham Lincoln's election as President. Over the next six weeks six more states would follow suit: Mississippi (9 January 1861), Florida (10 January), Alabama (11 January), Georgia (19 January), Louisiana (26 January) and Texas (1 February). Eight days later those states formed the Confederate States of America which added the states of North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, and Arkansas soon afterwards. And just as Charleston, South Carolina witnessed the first of the secession conventions, it was also the scene of the first shots fired in anger during the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in April 1861 that marked the formal start of the American Civil War. The printer, Evans & Cogswell had been a long-established printer in Charleston, founded in 1821, and is best-known for their printing of the South Carolina Ordinance of Secession in December 1860. In 1864, the firm moved to the relative safety of Columbia, South Carolina in the wake of Sherman's March to the Sea. When Union forces captured Charleston, the shop burned.Rare. Crandall 1872; Parrish & Willingham, 3759 (identifies four institutional copies including Boston Public Library, Boston Athenaeum, Hood College, Fredericksburg, Va., and Duke) ; Sabin 87433 (locates an additional copy at New York Public Library). We are aware of only two copies that have appeared at auction since 1995.Broadside. 508 x 313mm. Stone engraving in red and blue on coated paper. (Folds, a few minor marginal losses and tears neatly infilled and reinforced on verso.) Provenance: William E. Simon – by descent to the consignor.
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