who wrote the south carolina ordinance of secession
Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union An official secession convention met in South Carolina following the November 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, on a platform opposing the expansion of slavery into U.S. territories.[2] On December 20, 1860, the convention issued an ordinance of secession announcing the state's withdrawal from the union.[3] The ordinance was brief and legalistic in nature, containing no explanation of the reasoning behind the delegates' decision: