Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1861-02-13

es-and ayoV .lri, determination ia Ire.s
ON their erm aIr H-hiUs. us HH l1Ur as
negro slave ts'Hs .H ihc-r 'Hfrs
For years Ussf .is st...It.l arssBir.-
iion has heen rfi,eiF sowing tr s.eIs rE
discord throu Doe Onion. sHN fs- rsH.r.-
"a the fete Dong tbg 4Ttua far
spreading iu 'rs Hf- ..i hatred t-.uel-.
the slayeholding and non-slayeholding
States
ny ns.lidating their strength, they
have placed the slaveholding States in a
hopeless minority in the Federal Congress
and rendered representation OF no avail
in protecting Southern rights against their
eNae,iuns and entertainments,
They have proclaimed, and al the ballot
box sustained, the revolutionary dOo,.iEe
that there is a "ligher law Than the ,uH-
siiulion and laws 0f oar Federal Union,
and virtually, h,at they will disregard IL0ig
oalhs and lramPle upon our rights,
They have, for years past, encouraged
and sustained lawless organizations 10
steal our slaves and prevent their re-caP-
tnre, and have repeatedly murdered South
ern citizens while lawfully seeking their
rendition.
They have invaded southern soil and
numbered uuuHenling citizens, and through
ika press, their leading men and hna-
Teal pulpit, have bestowed praise upon the
Gcluis and assassinS ia these erlmvs-WAile
the Governors of several 0f their States
have refused to deliver parties Implicated
aud Indicted for participation Ia such of
fences, upon 'N' legal demands Of thc
states ggsg.cycl,
They have, through the mails and hired
cm.ssir.cs, seat s.,lllious pamphlets and
papc,s among,i us In s'irup segyile insUy-
Ivglion UIl bring blood aud carnage Ia our
iiy,sdcs,
They have sent hired cmissafi"s among
H- 20 HuEn aH- ..u. .na hHlr-r H.H.
ui Is.-.a 20 ou, 'ayJ for lhe 'ls r.H
pose
glry mrr hanover. sled the siavrholl.He
state. bog uE.Yuai and partial legislation
ih",fpy crrcs.us themselves by imln'Hs
oUs substance.
tucy h.., refused 60 vote appropriation
Con pFu.,e ur rgNu, agr inc, ruthless sIrs-
zoe. .u. lba ru'' reason Tia, ho b. slave
holding N4.r,
And ans.s. b. de- ,umD'unl sectional
vote OF tH. styeLt,pa vhu.i.Hg
States, they have elected ms President aud
Vice President Of the whole ConfcdcrpGy,
positions are their approval nj these long
continued wrongs, and their pledges Ia COLI
tiUuc them to the final contamination OF
these SCHEMES for the ruin of the slave
holding States.
Ia view ur these and many other facts
il is meet that our own views should be dis
tinctly proclaimed.
We hold, as undcniablc truths, that the
govern u,nts nj The various States aud of
the Cnulrdcwry ITSELF were established ex-
clusiNcly by the white race, for themselves
and their poatcrityi that the African race
had no agency in their establishments that
they were right!ully held and regarded ~
nm inferior aud dependant race, and IN
that condition only could their existence
in this country be rendered beneficial or
tolcgablc;
That, in this free government, all whiir
msa are, and If right oVyh II be, cnhHed 10
egUdi cira and political riyhisi that the SER
yi;udc of the African race, ms existing in
the Stntcs, is mutually beneficial to both
bond and free, and ia ubundGnty authori1-
81 and justified by the experience of man
kind, and the revealed will Of the Al
mighty Creator as recognized by all Chris
tian nations while the destruction Of the
existing relations between the two races
as advocated by our sectional enemies,
would bring inevitable caldmitics upon
both, and dcsolNtion upon the fifteen slave
holding States.
| BY the secession Of six of the slavchold-
ing States and the certainty that others
will speedily do likewise, Texas has no al
tentative but to remain in isolated con-
nectiun with the North, or unite her dcs-
TIMES with the South.
For these and thcrreNsons-solcmnly as-
srrting that the Federal Constitution has
been violated and virtually abrogatcd by the
several states named; seeing that the Fcde-
raj Government is now passing under the
control of our sectional enemies, to be di-
vcrtcd from the exalted objects of its crca-
ton, to those Of oppression and wrong and
rcalising that our state can no longer lool;
| for protection, but to Tod and her own s)us
We, the Delegates Of the People of Texas, in
Convention assembled, have passed An Or
dinance diSsolving all political connection
with the Government of the United States
Of America, and the People thcreof-and
confidently appeal TO the intelligence and
patriotism Of the trcemcn of Texas to ratify
the same at the ballot-boX, on the 23d day
Of the present month.
Adopted in Conventions on the second day
of February, in the year Of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and siXty-onc, and
of the independence of Texas the twenty
fifth.
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