Well? Make up your mind, darn it. Was it or wasn't it? Largely means it is part of something more. :-)
And finally - Texas, not to be outdone, wrote its own declaration.
Texas should have simply renounced the 1845 Treaty and reclaimed its status as a Republic. That unique status kinda separates us from everybody else except Hawaii.
"And finally - Texas, not to be outdone, wrote its own declaration."
Texas should have simply renounced the 1845 Treaty and reclaimed its status as a Republic.
Should have, but Texas weren't interested in becoming a sovereign republic again. They just wanted to be part of a nation that allowed them to have slaves.
Texas did, of course, renounce the 1845 treaty. From the ordinance the Texas voters passed overwhelmingly in February 1861:
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 the 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States, and became a party to the compact styled "The Constitution of the United States of America," be, and is hereby, repealed and annulled; that all the powers which, by the said compact, were delegated by Texas to the Federal Government are revoked and resumed; that Texas is of right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.
The ordinance took effect March 2, 1861. Texas did not accept an invitation to join the Confederacy until March 5, 1861. So we were on our own again, if only for a few days.