Page:South Carolina Declaration and Ordinance of Secession.djvu/13



That the Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thoussand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also, all Acts and parts of Acts of the General Assembly of this State, ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of "The United States of America," is hereby dissolved.