New Social and Business Conveniences.
Gas.
Plumbing.
Paved streets.
General use of anthracite.
Free schools.
Railroad expansion.
Express.
Postage stamps.
Ocean steamships.
New Inventions.
Number of patents.
The sewing machine.
The harvester.
The telegraph.
India rubber.
Daguerreotype.
Anaesthesia.
Atlantic cable.
The South.
Little affected by new industrial conditions.
Few manufactures.
Increase of the cotton area.
No immigration.
CHAPTER XXVII
WAR FOR THE UNION, 1861-1865
%419. South Carolina secedes%.—The only state where in 1860 presidential electors were chosen by the legislature was South Carolina. When the legislature met for this purpose, November 6, 1860, the governor asked it not to adjourn, but to remain in session till the result of the election was known. If Lincoln is elected, said he, the "secession of South Carolina from the Union" will be necessary. Lincoln was elected, and on December 20, 1860, a convention of delegates, called by the legislature to consider the question of secession, formally declared that South Carolina was no longer one of the United States.[1]
[Footnote 1: "We the people of the state of South Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain … that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other states, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved.">[