History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . in Charleston. It was a gala roared, bands played the Mar-seillaise, and processions paraded thestreets bearing such mottoes as LetsBury the Unions Dead Carcass ! Deathto All Abolitionists ! The whole Southwas beside itself with excitement. OneState after another assembled its conven-tion to decide the question of the Georgia Legislature, within aweek after the election of Lincoln, voted$1,000,000 to arm the State. The South Carolina convention met atCharleston, and on December 20
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . in Charleston. It was a gala roared, bands played the Mar-seillaise, and processions paraded thestreets bearing such mottoes as LetsBury the Unions Dead Carcass ! Deathto All Abolitionists ! The whole Southwas beside itself with excitement. OneState after another assembled its conven-tion to decide the question of the Georgia Legislature, within aweek after the election of Lincoln, voted$1,000,000 to arm the State. The South Carolina convention met atCharleston, and on December 20th unani-mously adopted an ordinance declaring: The union now subsisting between South 3IO CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION [1861 Carolina andother States,under the nameof the UnitedStates of Amer-ica, is action washailed withwildest enthusi-asm. Hugeplacards—TheUnion is Dis-solved !—wereposted through-out the city,while the clangof bells and theboom of cannonnhi/^ir\ \ notified theiUkiLf , I country round. The sidewalks ^ were thronged with ladies wearing seces-. street Banner in Charleston. i86i] SECESSION 311 sion bonnets made of cotton with palmettodecorations. A party of gentlemen visitedthe tomb of Calhoun, and there registeredtheir vows to defend the southern causewith their fortunes and lives. In the even-ing the convention marched to the hall inprocession, and formally signed the revo-lutionary ordinance. The chairman thensolemnly proclaimed South Carolina an independent commonwealth. The littleState, whose white population was less than300,000, began to play at being a governor was authorized to appoint acabinet and receive foreign ambassadors,and the papers put information from otherparts of the country under the head of foreign news. The secession of South Carolina wasgreeted with joy in most of the other slaveStates. Montgomery and Mobile, Ala.,each fired one hundred guns. At Rich-mond, Va., a palmetto banner was unfurled,while bells
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