the "declarations" were PRIVATE writings of a handfull of slaveowners. FEW people except the authors read the "declarations";even FEWER cared what the documents said.
the ONLY people who cared deeply about the preservation of slavery was the 5-% of persons who owned slaves.
go do some real research and you'll look SMARTER.
free dixie,sw
Smart like you, you mean? Gosh -- that would mean ignoring things like documented proof. Plus which, I'd have to spit when I shouted things at other posters. In short, I would have to become a bombastic twit. No thanks.
Now to brass tacks. The Texas Declaration of Causes ends with the following:
--We the delegates of the people of Texas, in Convention assembled, have passed an ordinance dissolving all political connection with the government of the United States of America and the people thereof and confidently appeal to the intelligence and patriotism of the freemen of Texas to ratify the same at the ballot box, on the 23rd day of the present month.Adopted in Convention on the 2nd day of Feby, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one and of the independence of Texas the twenty-fifth.
The referendum election was held as prescribed above, and it passed.
Now, you might call a state convention, and the Ordinance of Secession, and the related Declaration of Causes, "private writings." But I don't, and neither did the Texans. (Indeed, it is difficult to understand how a "private writing" could be used to justify an election and subsequent secession.) The truth of the matter is that and were aware of the Declaration of Causes, and they obviously did care what their Declaration of Causes said.
So your rant is (once again) proven to be delusion on your part.
Now: please stop spreading your neocon(federate) trash.