Excerpt from Historical Sketch of the War of the Rebellion, From 1861 to 1865: Movements of the Federal and Confederate Armies; Chronological List of Engagements; Reconstruction Proceedings; Proclamations, Statistical Tables, Etc
The Slaveholders" Rebellion, the seeds of which had been germinating for more than thirty years, was formally inaugurated in November, 1860. The election of Abraham Lincoln to the Presidency was the pretense under which the conspiracy was set on foot. The time was propitious. The country was virtually without a government; those who held the reins of power, with few exceptions, were the master-spirits of the insurrection; the public funds were prostituted to the uses of treason; the arms of the nation had been transferred to southern depots; the keys of our public arsenals were in disloyal hands; our army was so dispersed that it could be of no assistance to the country it preferred to serve; our navy was absent in distant seas. The government was at the mercy of men who had sworn to destroy it!
Secession of the State of South Carolina.
On November 9, 1860, the shipping in Charleston harbor hoisted the Palmetto flag and the same day an unsuccessful attempt was made to remove the government arms to Fort Moultrie. On the 10th a bill calling a State convention passed the Legislature of South Carolina. The Convention met at Columbia on the 17th of December, adjourned to Charleston on account of the small-pox, and on the 20th, passed an ordinance of secession, by a unanimous vote.
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