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Members from the State of South Carolina inform the House that the State of South Carolina has left the Union and that they are no longer members of the House of Representatives.
Washington, December 21, 1860.
SIR: We avail ourselves of the earliest opportunity, since the official communication of the intelligence, of mak-ing known to your honorable body that the people of the State of South Carolina, in their sovereign capacity, have Federal Government of the United States, and have thereby dissolved our connection with the House of Representatives.
In taking leave of those with whom we have been asso-ciated in a common agency, we, as well as the people of our Commonwealth, desire to do so with feelings of mutual regard and respect for the rights of each other, cherishing that hope that, in our future relations, we may better enjoy that peace and harmony essential to the happiness of a free and enlightened people.
John McQueen
M. L. Bonham.
W. W. Boyce.
J. D. Ashmore.