Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1861-02-13
a DECIAhsATEoN
or the Causes which impel the State
Of Texas 10 Sccedc ir0m the Federal

lniOn.
The Government of the United States, by
certain Joint Resolutions bearing date OH
the first day of March, in the year \. d.
1915, proposed to the Republic Of Texas,
then free, sovereign and independent MAJ
ton, Instrumentation of the latter to the for
.rO., AZ ""o 81 the go o,luol States thereof
The people of'rcxas, by Deputies in Conyen-
ton assembled, on the fourth day of July
Of the same year, asscntcd to and accepted
said proposals, and formed II constitution
lor~thc proposed State, upon which, on the
twcnly-ninth day of December, Of the same
year, said State was formally received into
the cun.cdcratcd Union.
Texas abandoned her separate national
existence and consented 10 become ono OF
the conledcratcd States, to promote her
welfare. insure domestic tranquility and
secure more substantially the blessings oil
liberty and peace to her people She was
received into the confcdcracy, with her own
constitution, under the guarantees Of the
Federal Constitution and the compact ol
annexation, that she should enjoy these
blessings. She was received as n common
wealth holding, maintaining sand project
ing the institution known rs negro slavery
- the servitudc Of the African TO the white
.,vv " itl:.. he, iimits---a relation mat had
existed from the first settlement Of her
wilderness by the white race, and which
her people intended should continue to OK
list in all future time. Her institutions and
geographical position established the strong
est ties between her and the other slave
holding States OF the Conicdcracy. Those
ties have been strengthened by the assoca-
ton. But what has been the course of the
government of the United States, and Of the
people and authorities of the non-slayc-
holding States since our connection with
them?
The controlling minority of the Federal
Government, under various pro'cnces and
DISCUSSES, has so administered the same as
to exclude the citizens OF The Southern
States, unless under odious and unconstitu-
tional restrictions, from all the immense
territory owned in common by all the States,
on the Pacific ocean, for the avowcd pur-
pose of acquiring sufficient power in the
common government, to use it as IL means
of destroying the institutions of Texas and
her sister suveholdng States.
BY the disloyalty Of the Northern States
and their citizens, and the imbcclity of the
Federal Government, infamous combinations
of incendiavies and outlaws have been per-
mittcd in those States and the common ter
ritory of Kansas, to tramplc upon the Fed
crai laws, to war upon the lives and pro-
ne,tv Of Southern citizens in that terrific
Nv and finally. bv violence and mob law.
TO I,surp the posscssion of the same. as ex-
clusiyeiy the property of the Northern
states
Tho federal Government. while but mar
tally under the control of these our I'M
natural and sectional enemies. has. for
VOWS almost entirely fnilod to protect the
lives and propertv Of the people of Texas
AGAINST the Indian savores on orr borders
and more recently against the murderous
fnrovs of bonditti from the nciphboripr
tcrritorv of Mexico: and when our State
Covornmnnt has cynended larre amounts
f,,. such n,rnoses. the Federal governments
hoe rofusod reimbursement therelor-thus
rcndcring onr condition more insecurc,and
borrassif& than it was during the exist
,ncc of tho Rrepublic of Taxas.
Thoseond other yron az sp52iaye patient
l.. horno in tho vain hone that a returning
go ~ 81 ius,icc and humanity would in
,s,.c.o J;Trrcnt course of administration.
Whom we advert to the couse of non
sloyeholding States and that of a majority
of their citizens. our grievances assume far
greater magnitude.
The States of Maine Vermont, New
HAMPSHIRE. Connecticut Rhode Island,
Massachusetts. New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio Wisconsin, Michigan and Iowa, by
Solemn Legislative cnactments, have DELHI
eratelv. directly or indirectly, violated the
third clause of the second section of the
fnnrIb article Of the Federal Constitution,
and laws uossed in nursuopee thereof:
tho,ohv onnrIIipg maIn,.iol nrovisior of
Tho comnoct Jceigrnd Inv its fromers ia
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