Upset with free States exercising their sovereignty by nullifying the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, the Secession Convention, of the Republic of Texas, votes (YEA, 166; NAY, 8) to submit its Ordinance of Secession from the voluntary Union to the Electorate, over the issues of state sovereignty:
We, the People of the State of Texas … do declare and ordain, that the Ordinance adopted … and afterwards ratified by us, under which the Republic of Texas was admitted into Union … is hereby repealed and annulled; That all the powers, which by said compact were delegated by Texas to the Federal Government, are revoked and resumed; That Texas is of right absolved from all restraints and obligations incurred by said compact, and is a separate Sovereign State, and that her citizens and people are absolved from all allegiance to the United States, or the Government thereof.
[updated 1/18/2025]
Subsequent Events:
Authority:
unanimous Declaration (of Independence), Paragraph 6
ccc-2point0.com/unanimous-declaration-of-independence
Article X of Amendment
ccc-2point0.com/constitution-for-the-united-states
References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 283.
Chronology Of The American Civil War
civilwarhome.com/timeline.htm
Texas in the American Civil War – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_in_the_American_Civil_War#Secession_convention_and_the_Confederacy
Reconstruction era – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_era
Texas Ordinance of Secession | TX Almanac
www.texasalmanac.com/articles/ordinance-to-dissolve-the-union-between-the-state-of-texas-and-the-other-states
TSHA | Secession Convention
www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/secession-convention
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