be officially issued by the South Carolina Secession Convention. The first was the Ordinance of Secession itself. The third was "The Address of the people of South Carolina, assembled in Convention, to the people of the Slaveholding States of the United States", written by Robert Barnwell Rhett, which called on other slave holding states to secede and join in forming a new nation. The convention resolved to print 15,000 copies of these three documents and distribute them to various parties. The declaration was seen as analogous to the U.S. Declaration of Independence from 1776, however, it omitted the phrases that "all men are created equal", "that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights", and "consent of the governed". Professor and historian Harry V. Jaffa noted this omission as significant in his 2000 book, A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War: Jaffa states that South Carolina omitted references to human equality and consent of the governed, as due to their racist and pro-slavery views, secessionist South Carolinians did not believe in those ideals: See also Mississippi Secession Ordinance Ordinance of Secession South Carolina in the American Civil War References Books External links Full text of the declaration Texts of the Ordinances and Declarations of Secession of the various Confederate states Original text of South Carolina Declaration and Ordinance Original text of Mississippi Declaration American Civil War Secession crisis of 1860–61 South Carolina in the American Civil War American Civil War documents South Carolina History of South Carolina Politics of South Carolina 1860 in South Carolina December 1860 events 1860 documents