1. They have refused to vote appropriations for protecting Texas against ruthless savages, for the sole reason that she is a slave-holding State.

I find it strange they would say this, due to the fact that there were a good number of Federal Forts in Texas specifically for fighting Indians? More than other states?

2.They have impoverished the slave-holding States by unequal and partial legislation, thereby enriching themselves by draining our substance.

Closing off new territories (States) to slavery? Jeff Davis complained about this in a speech.

3.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 offences, upon the legal demands of the States aggrieved.

Do you know of specific incidences they (the signers) are talking about? (other than John Brown, who was hung!) They (Texans) hung a couple of preachers for supposedly preaching slave unrest & rebellion

5. They have proclaimed, and at the ballot box sustained, the revolutionary doctrine that there is a "higher law" than the constitution and laws of our Federal Union, and virtually that they will disregard their oaths and trample upon our rights.

Trampling rights, not following the Constitution, disregarding oaths I know of specifically, was not cooperating helping with returning runaway slaves. Also the equalization of the Blacks to the Whites? “Higher law/Revolutionary Doctorine?”

With mentioning slavery, or referring to slavery so many times in the document, I can be pretty assured that many of their complaints wouldn’t exist if there was no slavery to begin with.

Kevin Dally