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10-Nearly all the U. S. Government officers at Charleston, S. C., resigned.
### JAMES H. HAMMOND, of South Carolina, U. S. Senator, resigned.
14-The South Carolina Legislature passed an act calling a State Convention.
23-The Banks in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wheeling, Norfolk, Augusta, Ga., Trenton, N. J., Pittsburgh, Pa., and in the District of Columbia, together with the Farmers and Exchange Bank in Charleston, S. C., suspended specie payments.
26-All the principal Banks of Tennessee, including the State Bank, suspended specie payments.
### DECEMBER, 1860
6-In accordance with the resolution of Mr. BOTELER, of Virginia, the Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives appointed the famous Special Committee of Thirty three, consisting of one member from each State, to whom was referred that portion of the President's Message relating to the perilous condition of the country.
The people of South Carolina elected delegates to a State Convention. Every delegate chosen was in favor of secession.
10-The Legislature of Louisiana convened and passed an act for a State Convention.
U. S. five per cent. stocks sold for eighty-nine cents on the dollar-a lower price than any U. S. stocks had brought since the last war with England.
HOWELL COBB, of Georgia, Secretary of the U. S. Treasury, resigned.
11-PHILIP F. THOMAS, of Maryland, (was appointed, by President BUCHANAN, Secretary of the U. S. Treasury.
14-President BUCHANAN issued a proclamation for a National Fast on January 4, 1861.
GEN. Cass resigned his position as Secretary of State.
17-South Carolina State Convention met at Columbia and adjourned to Charleston.
Attorney General JEREMIAH S. BLACK, of Pa., appointed by the President Secretary of State.
18. EDWIN M. STANTON, of Pa., appointed by the President U. S. Attorney General.
20-South Carolina State Convention passed an ordinance of secession dissolving the connection of that State with the Federal Government.
The Vice President of the United States appointed the Senate Committee of thirteen on the perilous condition of the country.
24-The South Carolina members of the U. S. House of Representatives notified the Speaker that the secession of their State dissolved their connection with that body.
The South Carolina Convention, in the name of the people of that State, adopted a Declaration of Independence.
GOV. PICKENS issued a proclamation declaring South Carolina a sovereign, free and independent State.
26-R. BARNWELL, J. H. ADAMS and JAMES L. ORR, Commissioners to the Federal Government from South Carolina, arrived in Washington.
Fort Moultrie, in the harbor of Charleston, S. C., abandoned by Major ANDERSON and his men, who repaired to Fort Sumter.
28-The South Carolina authorities seized Fort Moultrie and Castle Pinckney, in Charleston harbor, and took possession of the U. S. Custom House, Post Office and Arsenal in Charleston.
29-JOHN BUCHANAN FLOYD, U. S. Secretary of War, resigned.
### JANUARY, 1861
2-The Florida State Convention met at Tallahassee.
3-Forts Pulaski and Jackson, in the harbor of Savannah, taken possession of by the Georgia State troops.
The South Carolina Commissioners left Washington for home, having accomplished nothing.
4-National Fast-Fort Morgan, in the harbor of Mobile, taken possession of by Alabama State troops, and also the U. S. Arsenal in Mobile.
8-JACOB THOMPSON, of Mississippi, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, resigned.
Forts Johnson and Caswell seized by North Carolina State troops.
9-Steamship Star of the West, with troops and supplies for Fort Sumter, fired into from the South Carolina batteries, at the entrance of Charleston harbor, and compelled to retire.
The Mississippi State Convention passed an ordinance of immediate secession.
10-Forts St. Phillip and Jackson, on the Mississippi river, and Fort Pike, on Lake Ponchartrain, and the U. S. Arsenal at Baton Rouge, seized by Louisiana State troops.
11-Alabama and Florida State Conventions each passed an ordinance of secession.
PHILIP F. THOMAS, U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, resigned, and JOHN A. DIX, of New York, appointed by the President to the vacant office.
12-Fort Barancas and the Navy Yard at Pensacola, Florida, seized by Alabama and Florida troops.
The Mississippi members of the U. S. House of Representatives withdrew from that body.
17-The Georgia State Convention adopted an ordinance of secession.
21-Senator Davis, of Mississippi, the Alabama Senators, and the Florida Senators, withdrew from the U. S. Senate, The Alabama members of the U. S. House of Representatives withdrew from that body.
23-The Georgia members of the U. S. House of Representatives withdrew from that body.
26-The Louisiana State Convention passed a Secession Ordinance.
31-U.S. Mint and Custom House at New Orleans seized by the authorities of Louisiana.
### FEBRUARY, 1861
1-The Texas State Convention passed an Ordinance of Secession.
4-A Peace Conference met at Washington, and elected ex-President JOHN TYLER, President.
A Congress of the Seceded States met at Montgomery, Ala., and elected HOWELL COBB, President. Delegates elected in Virginia to a State Convention.
5-The Louisiana Senators and members of the House, with the exception of J. F. BOULIGNY, Representative, withdrew from the U. S. Congress.
8-The U. S. Arsenal at Little Rock surrendered to the State authorities of Arkansas.
9-The Southern Congress elected JEFFERSON DAVIS, President, and ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS, Vice President, of the Southern Confederate States, and adopted the United States Constitution, with slight alterations.
Tennessee elected delegates to a State Convention.
