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in the presence of the governor and both branches of the legislature, after which President Jamison announced, The Ordinance of Secession has been signed and ratified, and I proclaim the State of South Carolina an independent commonwealth. On the 24th Governor Pickens issued his formal proclamation, announcing the same event and declaring to the world that South Carolina is, as she has a right to be, a separate, sovereign, free and independent State. The Address of the convention to the Soutent of the State was described at the time by one of its well-informed citizens as follows: She would respond to any fair proposition for an equitable adjustment, but will insist on her rights at all hazards; and to do this the legislature on the 24th, called a convention. In Arkansas the general sentiment favored the call of a convention, which the legislature on January 16th unanimously ordered. The Union feeling in East Tennessee was strong enough to hold the secession movement under restr