Price: $37,500.00
SKU: 92774
PUBLISHER: Extre published by the Charleston Mercury. Charleston, SC, December 20, 1860..
MEDIUM: Typeset,
DATE: 1860.
EDITION SIZE: Sheet size 20 1/2 x 10 5/'8" (52.2 x 27 cm)
DESCRIPTION: <b>THE FIRST SECESSION BROADSIDE.</b><br><br> <I>Charleston Mercury Extra ... The Union is Dissolved!</I> Printed broadside, Sheet size 20 1/2 x 10 5/'8" (52.2 x 27 cm). tiny holes at fold intersections, near fine. "THE FIRST CONFEDERATE IMPRINT was the extra of the Charleston Mercury, December 20, 1860, which announced the passage of the Ordinance of Secession only fifteen minutes after the final vote on it" (Harwell).<br><br> South Carolina being the first state to secede. This broadside announces the birth of the Confederacy in large wood-type:<br><br> "The UNION is DISSOLVED!" "We the People of the State of South Carolina, in Convention Assembled, do declare and ordain...that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of The United States of America,' is hereby dissolved..."<br><br> The drama of the occasion is well described in Rhodes' History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850: "Immediately on the declaration of the vote the door-keeper was apprised. He gave the word to the policeman nearest him. It passed from mouth to mouth until it reached the sentinel at the tall iron gate at the entrance, and by him was proclaimed to the impatient crowd. Cheer after cheer rent the air. In less than 15 minutes the Charleston Mercury had issued an extra giving the text of the ordinance, and the news that it had been unanimously adopted" (vol 3, 198). Harwell Cornerstones of Confederate Collecting, p 6.<br><br> A rare and important piece.
ADDITIONAL INFO:
CONDITION: Good condition. Folds as issues, minor losses along sheet edge. Professionally conserved.
REFERENCE: Hummell Southeastern Broadsides before 1877 2434; Sabin 87439; Streeter sale 1271.
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