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All eleven Confederate states published declarations of secession, every word of which was a defense of SLAVERY -- not a word about tariffs or states rights or anything else. See www.republicanbasics.com for a history of the GOP from the Republican point of view.

ONCE MORE, the documents you and other damnyankee apologists keep talking about have at least the following problems:

1.the authors represented only themselves;they were elected by NOBODY &

2.almost nobody except the authors read the documents &

4. nobody in the general public cared what the aristocrats that wrote the documents said &

4.nobody in academia was even interested in the documents until the revisionists took over NE academia & started looking for a reason to say that slavery was the ONE, SINGLE CAUSE of the war.

this theory is simply an excuse for the WAR CRIMES committed by the "filth that came down from the north".

there is not enough whitewash in all the world to cover the damnyankees crimes against humanity & not enough soap to wash the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocents from their hands.

free the south,sw

"See www.republicanbasics.com for a history of the GOP from the Republican point of .

Would you bother to read a history of the Democratic party written from the Democratic party's point of view?

Excuse me, Didiot:

If you read the actual ORDINANCE...the one passed by the legislature, you will get an education:

Pasted here for the "mentally challenged linconites"

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 these 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 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 interests 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,

SECTION 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 Fourth 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.

SECTION 2. This ordinance shall be submitted to the people of Texas for their ratification or rejection by the qualified voters thereof, on the 23rd 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 19th day of February, A.D. 1861.

Adopted in Convention, at Austin City, the first day of February, A.D. 1861.

Ratified February 23, 1861, by a referendum vote of 46,153 for and 14,747 against.

All eleven Confederate states published declarations of secession, every word of which was a defense of SLAVERY -- not a word about tariffs or states rights or anything else

That is simply not true. All 11 confederate states and 2 rump conventions in border states published what they called "Ordinances of Secession." Not one of them mentions a thing about slavery beyond a geographical reference.

In addition to the 11 Ordinances, which every confederate state published, the membership of the conventions of four states (Texas, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina) drafted legislative resolutions listing certain causes. These four documents were very heavily pro-slavery, but not entirely devoted to the issue. The tariff issue was listed briefly in the Texas legislative resolution. Georgia's legislators talked about the tariff issue at length in multiple paragraphs.