Georgia Secession Decree (January, 1861):
“(The Northern States) have endeavored to weaken our security, to disturb our domestic peace and tranquility, and refused to comply with their constitutional obligations to us in reference to our property, and by the use of their power in the Federal Government have striven to deprive us of an equal enjoyment of the common Territories of the Republic.
“The people of Georgia, after a full and fair and deliberate hearing of the case, have declared with firmness that (the Northern States) shall not rule over them.”
Mississippi Secession Decree (January, 1861):
“(The North) has given indubitable evidence of its design to ruin our agriculture, to prostrate our industrial pursuits and to destroy our social system.
“Utter subjugation awaits us in the Union, if we should consent longer to remain in it. It is not a matter of choice, but of necessity (to secede).”
Texas Secession Decree (February, 1861)
“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 slaveholding States.”
Louisiana Secession Decree (January, 1861):
“The people of Louisiana are unwilling to endanger their liberties and property by submission to the despotism of a single tyrant, or the canting tyranny of pharisaical majorities (in the North).”
Mississippi Secession Decree (January, 1861): “That they have elected a majority of electors for President and Vice-President on the ground that there exists an irreconcilable conflict between the two sections of the Confederacy in reference to their respective systems of labor and in pursuance of their hostility to us and our institutions, thus declaring to the civilized world that the powers of this government are to be used for the dishonor and overthrow of the Southern section of this great Confederacy.”
here for your review and correction:
“refused to comply with their constitutional obligations in reference to our property”
Could they have meant the obligation to return their runaway property under article IV sec. II?
“deprive us of an equal enjoyment of the common Territories of the Republic.”
No law prohibited Southerners from going into any territory of the United States. All the had to do was leave their slaves at home.
“exclude the citizens of the Southern States, unless under odious and unconstitutional restrictions, from all the immense territory owned in common.”
The only restriction on Southerners was they could not bring their slaves into the territories.
“in reference to their respective systems of labor”
one system of labor was free the other system of labor was slave.