The Militia of South Carolina fires on the USS Star of the West attempting to re-supply the Army of the united States garrison at Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor with 200 fresh soldiers and additional armaments with which to enforce duties borne mostly by the southern States whose slave owners bought English products to repay the loans on slaves by the English East Indian Trading Company.
[restored 3/11/2022]
The legislature of Mississippi votes to secede from the voluntary Union (84 – 15).
[restored 3/11/2022]
Subsequent Events:
Authority:
South Carolina Constitution of 1790, Article II, Section 6
https://www.carolana.com/SC/Documents/sc_constitution_1790.html
Article X of Amendment
ccc-2point0.com/constitution-for-the-united-states
References:
Richard N. Current, Lincoln and the First Shot, (New York: Harper & Row, 1964; Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland, 1990), 24, 60, 98.
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 152.
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