"ANIMIS OPIBUSQUE PARATI" South Carolina Flag November 16, 1860 Stickers

On the 13th of November, 1860, just a week after the election of Lincoln, a torchlight procession paraded the streets of Columbia, South Carolina, and the Stars and Stripes was ; lowered from the State House, and the Palmetto flag raised in its place.

Three days afterward a pine liberty-pole 90 feet in hight was erected in Charleston, and a palmetto flag unfurled from its top. The flag had a white field bearing a green palmetto tree in the centre, and underneath it the motto of South Carolina: Animis Opibusque Parati: meaning, "Prepared in mind and resources, ready to give life and property.

Each purchase comes with 3 stickers.