 against slavery. Wow. Until it shall cease throughout the United States. So in concluding, the person who wrote it, I can tell by the name of Meminger, wrote that South Carolina now declared the federal union dissolved. And in doing so, quote, has resumed her position among the nations of the world as a separate and independent state with full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all the other acts and things which independent states might have right to do.