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A declaration of the causes which impel the State of Texas to secede from the Federal Union. The government of the United States, by certain joint resolutions, bearing date the 1st day of March, in the year A.D. 1845, proposed to the Republic of Texas, then a free, sovereign and independent nation, the annexation of the latter to the former as ...
An Ordinance: To dissolve the union between the State of Texas and the other States, united under the compact styled "The Constitution of the United States of America." Adopted in Convention, at Austin City, the first day of February, A.D. 1861. Related Links Narrative history of Secession and Readmission | Narrative history of Annexation
The Texas Ordinance of Secession was the document that officially separated Texas from the United States in 1861. It was adopted by the Secession Convention on February 1 of that year, by a vote of 166 to 8.
Sixteen years after Texas joined the United States, in January 1861, the Secession Convention met in Austin and adopted an Ordinance of Secession on February 1 and a Declaration of Causes on February 2.
Texas Ordinance of Secession. Adopted February 1, 1861; ratified February 23, 1861. This version from a convention-ordered 1861 publication. No. 1—AN ORDINANCE. To dissolve the union between the State of Texas and the other States, united under the compact styled " The Constitution of the United States of America.
Declaration of the causes which impel the state of Texas to secede from the Federal Union : also the ordinance of secession. [Austin, Tex.? : Herald office, 1861]
Texas abandoned her separate national existence and Consented to become one of the confederated States, to promote her welfare, insure domestic tranquility and secure more substantially the blessings of liberty and peace to her people.