Yes, I’m telling you WHY Texas left the Union. SLAVERY - and expanding it and LOVING it was their goal. By their own words.
- the federal government had deliberately not secured the border as Texas' accession treaty required them to do.
- the federal government did not provide the security against the Comanche that was required. The Comanche were particularly ruthless and often raided and murdered Texas citizens. This refusal to provide the security they had been promised was in the view of Texans, malicious.
(See here) " They have refused to vote appropriations for protecting Texas against ruthless savages, for the sole reason that she is a slave-holding State."
To wit:
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 refuse reimbursement therefor, thus rendering our condition more insecure and harassing than it was during the existence of the Republic of Texas.
- in the words of Texas' declaration of causes, they (the Northern states) "drain our substance" (meaning they screw them over and treat the Southern states as cash cows.
The words of John H Reagan who was a US Representative from Texas address this point:
[To a Northern Congressman] "You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue laws, our navigation laws, your fishing bounties, and by making your people our manufacturers, our merchants, our shippers. You are not satisfied with the vast tribute we pay you to build up your great cities, your railroads, your canals. You are not satisfied with the millions of tribute we have been paying you on account of the balance of exchange, which you hold against us. You are not satisfied that we of the South are almost reduced to the condition of overseers of Northern Capitalist. You are not satisfied with all this; but you must wage a relentless crusade against our rights and our institutions."
Here is what Texas says precisely: "They have impoverished the slave-holding States by unequal and partial legislation, thereby enriching themselves by draining our substance."
Texas also cited in addition to the Northern states violating the fugitive slave clause of the US Constitution, (see here)
"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 [the fugitive slave clause] of the federal constitution, and laws passed in pursuance thereof; thereby annulling a material provision of the compact, designed by its framers to perpetuate the amity between the members of the confederacy and to secure the rights of the slave-holding 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."
Texas also cited the support in the Northern states for overt acts of terrorism against the Southern states.
"They have for years past encouraged and sustained lawless organizations to steal our slaves and prevent their recapture, and have repeatedly murdered Southern citizens while lawfully seeking their rendition."
"They have invaded Southern soil and murdered unoffending citizens, and through the press their leading men and a fanatical pulpit have bestowed praise upon the actors and assassins in these crimes, while the governors of several of their States have refused to deliver parties implicated and indicted for participation in such offenses, upon the legal demands of the States aggrieved."
"They have, through the mails and hired emissaries, sent seditious pamphlets and papers among us to stir up servile insurrection and bring blood and carnage to our firesides."
"They have sent hired emissaries among us to burn our towns and distribute arms and poison to our slaves for the same purpose."
Texas' complaints go well beyond just slavery.
But you were claiming that was why they fought an invasion. You deliberately misrepresented their efforts to push back an invader as being entirely about slavery, when any reasonable person would expect every man to fight back against what they see as invading tyranny and oppression.
You simply want to believe the propaganda that has been fed to all of us since the 1860s. You accept the official government narrative and all the acolytes who parrot the same narrative.
I get it. It's comforting to believe a Noble lie rather than an unpleasant truth.
And slavery couldn't expand. I've looked at the economic potential of slavery in the territories and it simply was never going to happen because it could not be economically viable.
That too was a lie that was fed to the public by the special interests in the Northeast for reasons of political advantage.