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SOUTH CAROLINA - ORDINANCE OF SECESSION/ "SCROLL OF

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Broadside, The State of Carolina."At a Convention if the People of the State ... begun and held at Columbia ... An Ordinance to dissolve the Union between the State of South Carolina and the other States ... done at Charleston, 20 December 1860 ... Entered according to Act if Congress in the Clerk’s Office .. for the Eastern District of Michigan, 1865." 1 page, large folio, (30-1/2 x 24 in.), careful mends to a few corners and mostly marginal defects, laid on archival paper. Professionally conserved, matted and framed. THE "SCROLL OF TREASON," SOUTH CAROLINA'S SECESSION BROADSIDE, AS CAPTURED BY U.S. COLORED TROOPS. A large format lithographic facsimile of the original manuscript Act of Secession, reproducing one captured by a detachment of U.S. Colored Troops in the closing days of the Civil War. It displays exactly the facsimile signatures of Jamison, President of the Convention, as well as those of the 169 delegates. At the bottom, an explanatory note reads, "This scroll of 'treason' was found in the house of Dr. Lamb, Secretary of State ... while out on a two days scout." The specific Union troops are identified as Company G, 102 US Colored Troops, "the whole under command of Maj. N. Clark and Lieutenant G.A. Southworth." The black soldiers had actually discovered a copy of the imposing Evans & Cogswell engraving but believed it to be the original act. The plantation where it was discovered was "Soldier's Retreat" near Drayton Hall. Upon his return with the treasured document to his hometown of Leoni, Michigan, First Lieutenant G.A. Southworth arranged for the ordinance to be reproduced again, with the appended story of his company's finding of the "original" while on a "scout." AN EXTREMELY RARE BROADSIDE, privately printed in a small edition, reproducing the engrossed document by which South Carolina became the first state to declare its secession. Christies sold one copy (December 9, 1998, lot 72, $8,625, in less-fine condition). Sabin notes only three surviving copies.

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