As usual, Watie lies. The declarations of causes were issued by the same state secession conventions that issued their acts of secession. Watie can't claim one was a valid expression of the state and the other not.
In each case, the convention voted to create a committee to draft the "causes" document. In each case, the draft document came to the floor of the convention, was debated, possibly slightly amended, and then voted on. I believe that each was passed unanimously by the general convention, but I could be wrong on that one.
> As usual, Watie lies.
Which is why I ignore him.
He's actually one of the best arguements out there in favor of looking with disdain upon the motives of the Confederacy... it's always good to have your opponant be one of the ARGUE BY CAPS LOCKS types.
> Watie can't claim one was a valid expression of the state and the other not.
Sure he can. Just as many Islamists can simultaneously believe that 9-11 was a Zionist plot to make Muslims look bad *AND* a genius strategy by bin Laden to apply a smackdown to the US. Madness allows believing simultaneously contradictory things.