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The Texas Ordinance of Secession
This is the document, later ratified by
popular vote, by which
delegates to the Texas Secession
Convention in Austin in February 1861
declared Texas separated from the United States
One of the signers was Joseph Alvey
Clayton,
delegate from Navarro and Hill Counties
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."
Whereas, the Federal Government has failed to accomplish the purposes of the compact of union between the States, in giving protection either to the persons of our people upon an exposed frontier, or to the property of our citizens; and, whereas, the action of the Northern States of the Union is violative of the compact between the States and the guarantees of the Federal Constitution, and, whereas, the recent developments in Federal affairs, make it evident that the power of the Federal Government is sought to be made a weapon with which to strike down the interest and prosperity of the people of Texas and her sister slaveholding States, instead of permitting it to be, as was intended our shield against outrage and aggression:
Therefore,
Sec. 1. We, the People of the State of Texas, by delegates in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, that the ordinance adopted by our convention of delegates, on the 4th day of July, A. D. 1845, and afterwards ratified by us, under which the Republic of Texas was admitted into union with other States and became a party to the compact styled "The Constitution of the United States of America" be, and is hereby repealed and annulled; that all the powers which by said compact were delegated by Texas to the Federal Government are revoked and resumed; that Texas is of right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.
Sec. 2. This ordinance shall be submitted to the people of Texas for their ratification or rejection by the qualified voters thereof, on the 23d day of February, 1861, and, unless rejected by a majority of the votes cast, shall take effect and be in force on and after the 2d day of March, A. D. 1861. Provided that in the representative district of El Paso said election may be held on the 18th day of February, A. D. 1861.
Done by the people of the State of Texas, in Convention assembled, at Austin, this 1st day of February, A. D. 1861.
O. M. Roberts [Oran Milo
Roberts], Prsdt. [President]
Edwin
Waller
L. A. Abercrombie [Leonard
Anderson Abercrombie]
W. A. Allen
James M. Anderson [James Monroe
Anderson] of Cherokee
T. S. Anderson [Thomas Scott
Anderson]
James R. Armstrong
Richard L. Askew
W. S. J. Adams
Wm. C. Batte
S. W. Beasley
John Box [John
Andrew Box]
H. Newton Burditt
James M.
Burroughs
John I. Burton
S. E. Black
W. T. Blythe
Amzi
Bradshaw
Robert Weakley Brahan
A. S. Broaddus
Jno. Henry Brown [John Henry
Brown]
Robert C. Campbell
Lewis F. Casey
Wm. Chambers [William
Morton Chambers]
T. J. Chambers [Thomas
Jefferson Chambers], Chairman of the Committee on Federal Relations
John Green Chambers
N. B. Charlton
Geo. W. Chilton [George
Washington Chilton]
Isham Chisum
Wm. Clark, Jr. [William
Clark, Jr.]
J. A. Clayton [Joseph
Alvey Clayton]
Charles L. Cleveland
A. G. Clopton [Albert
Gallatin Clopton]
Richard
Coke
James E. Cook
Jon W. Dancy [John Winfield
Scott Dancy]
A. H. Davidson
C. Deen [Calloway
Deen, Sr.]
Thos. J. Devine [Thomas
Jefferson Devine]
Thomas G. Davenport
Jas. J. Diamond [James J.
Diamond]
Wm. W. Diamond
Jno. Donelson
Joseph H. Dunham
Edward
Dougherty
H. H. Edwards [Haden
Harrison Edwards]
Elbert Early
John N. Fall
Drury Field
John H. Feeney
George Flournoy [George M.
Flournoy]
Spencer Ford
John S. Ford [John Salmon
('Rip') Ford]
Thomas C. Frost [Thomas
Claiborne Frost]
Amos P. Galloway
Charles Ganahl
Robert S. Gould [Robert
Simonton Gould]
Robert Graham
Malcom D. Graham [Malcolm
Duncan Graham or Malcolm David Graham]
Peter W.
Gray
Jno. A. Green [John
Alexander Green]
John
Gregg
Wm. P. Hardeman [William Polk
Hardeman]
John R. Hayes
Philemon T. Herbert [Philemon
Thomas Herbert]
A. W. O. Hicks [Archibald W.
O. Hicks]
Thos. B. J. Hill
Alfred M. Hobby [Alfred
Marmaduke Hobby]
Jos. L. Hogg [Joseph Lewis
Hogg]
J. J. Holt
James Hooker
Edward R.
Hord
Russell Howard
A. Clark Hoyl
Thos P. Hughes
J. W. Hutcheson
Jno. Ireland [John Ireland]
Thos. J. Jennings [Thomas
Jefferson Jennings]
F. Jones
W. C. Kelly
T. Koester
C. M. Lesueur
F. W. Latham
Pryor Lea
James S. Lester [James Seaton
Lester]
John
Littleton
M. F. Locke
Oliver Loftin
Thos. S. Lubbock [Thomas Saltus
Lubbock]
P. N. Luckett [Philip Noland
Luckett]
Henry A. Maltby [Henry Alonzo
Maltby]
Jesse Marshall
James M. Maxey
Lewis W. Moore
Wm. McCraven
Wm. McIntosh
Gilchrist McKay
Thomas M. McCraw
Wm. Goodloe Miller
Albert N. Mills
Thomas
Moore
Thos. C. Moore [Thomas C.
Moore]
Charles de Montel [Charles S.
DeMontel]
B. F. Moss
John Muller
Thos. J. Nash
A. Nauendorf
T. C. Neei
Allison
Nelson
James F. Newsom
W. M. Neyland
E. B. Nichols [Ebenezar B.
Nichols]
A. J. Nicholson
E. P. Nicholson
James M.
Norris
Alfred T. Obenchain
W. B. Ochiltree [William Beck
Ochiltree]
W. S. Oldham [Williamson
Simpson Oldham]
R. J. Palmer
W. M. Payne
W. K. Payne
William M. Peck [William
Mynatt Peck]
W. R. Poag
Alexander Pope
David Y.
Portis
D. M. Pendergast
Walter F. Preston
F. P. Price
A. T. Rainey
John H. Reagan [John
Henninger Reagan]
C. Rector [Claiborne
Rector]
P. G. Rhome
E. S. C. Robertson [Elijah
Sterling Clack Robertson]
J. C. Robertson [John C.
Robertson]
J. B. Robertson [Jerome
Bonaparte Robertson]
William P. Rogers [William
Peleg Rogers]
James H. Rogers [James
Harrison Rogers]
Edward M. Ross
Jno. Rugeley [John Rugeley]
H. R. Runnels [Hardin
Richard Runnels]
E. B. Scarborough
Wm. T. Scott [William
Thomas Scott]
William
Read Scurry
James E. Shepard
Sam S. Smith
Gideon Smith
John D. Stell [John Dennis
Stell]
John G. Stewart
Charles
Stewart
F. S. Stockdale [Fletcher
Summerfield Stockdale]
Wm. H. Stewart [William
Henry Stewart]
Pleasant Taylor
B. F. Terry [Benjamin
Franklin Terry]
Nathaniel Terry
E. Thomason
James G. Thompson [James George
Thompson]
W. S. Todd [William Smith
Todd]
James Walworth
R. H. Ward
Wm. Warren
Jas. C. Watkins
John A. Wharton [John Austin
Wharton]
Joseph P. Wier [Joseph
Patterson Wier]
Jno. A. Wilcox [John Allen
Wilcox]
A. P. Wiley
Ben Williams
Jason Wilson
Philip A. Work [Philip
Alexander Work]
Attest
R. T. Brownrigg, Secy to the Convention
Wm. Dunn Schoolfield, Asst Secy
R. W. Lunday, Asst Secy
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