McLaren and his followers believed that when Texas became a state in , that was really a hostile takeover of a separate sovereign nation, which meant that the Republic of Texas still existed. The current push toward secession has been associated with a different group, the Texas Nationalist Movement. Texas is far from the only state to make noise about its own secession in modern history. Write to Lily Rothman at lily. Engraving from "Harper's Weekly," By Lily Rothman.
Those ties have been strengthened by association. But what has been the course of the government of the United States, and of the people and authorities of the non-slave-holding States, since our connection with them?
The controlling majority of the Federal Government, under various pretences and disguises, has so administered the same as to exclude the citizens of the Southern States, unless under odious and unconstitutional restrictions, from all the immense territory owned in common by all the States on the Pacific Ocean, for the avowed purpose of acquiring sufficient power in the common government to use it as a means of destroying the institutions of Texas and her sister slave-holding States.
By the disloyalty of the Northern States and their citizens and the imbecility of the Federal Government, infamous combinations of incendiaries and outlaws have been permitted in those States and the common territory of Kansas to trample upon the federal laws, to war upon the lives and property of Southern citizens in that territory, and finally, by violence and mob law, to usurp the possession of the same as exclusively the property of the Northern States.
The Federal Government, while but partially under the control of these our unnatural and sectional enemies, has for years almost entirely failed to protect the lives and property of the people of Texas against the Indian savages on our border, and more recently against the murderous forays of banditti from the neighboring territory of Mexico; and when our State government has expended large amounts for such purpose, the Federal Government has refused reimbursement therefor, thus rendering our condition more insecure and harrassing than it was during the existence of the Republic of Texas.
These and other wrongs we have patiently borne in the vain hope that a returning sense of justice and humanity would induce a different course of administration. When we advert to the course of individual non-slave-holding 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 enactments, have deliberately, directly or indirectly violated the 3rd clause of the 2nd section of the 4th article of the federal constitution, and laws passed in pursuance thereof; thereby annulling a material provision of the compact, designed by its framers to perpetuate amity between the members of the confederacy and to secure the rights of the slave-holdings States in their domestic institutions--a provision founded in justice and wisdom, and without the enforcement of which the compact fails to accomplish the object of its creation.
Some of those States have imposed high fines and degrading penalties upon any of their citizens or officers who may carry out in good faith that provision of the compact, or the federal laws enacted in accordance therewith. March 1 — Texas is accepted as a state by the provisional government of the Confederate States of America, even before its secession from the Union is official.
March 5 — The Secession Convention approves an ordinance accepting Confederate statehood. March 1 6 — Sam Houston resigns as governor in protest against secession. March 28 — Battle of Glorieta. Sibley's brigade forced to return to Texas, ending the attempt to take New Mexico. Eight others are killed on Oct. His opposition was insufficient to cause either the voters or the members of the state legislature to put aside the actions of the Convention. John H. Reagan, a Texan, was the Postmaster General of the C.
When the war ended in April , Texas was still considered to be in revolt the last battle of the Civil War was fought on Texas soil after the surrender at Appomattox. Although a state of peace was declared as existing between the United States and the other Southern States on April 2, , President Andrew Johnson did not issue a similar proclamation of peace between the U. Southern States remained under military government until their legislatures adopted the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution.
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