ultimate extinction. What reason (Doc 5) did South Carolina give for leaving the US? Was this true?

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This excerpt is from the South Carolina ordinance of secession, unanimously approved by the State Legislature on December 20, 1860.
A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States whose opinions and purposes are hostile to Slavery. . . . he has declared that that “Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free,” and that the public mind must rest in the belief that Slavery is in the course of ultimate extinction.

What reason (Doc 5) did South Carolina give for leaving the US? Was this
true?

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