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Re: States Rights as a Pre-War Issue

Three of several points made in the Texas declaration related to her status as a slave-holding state. One of these mentions the unfavorable balance of power between the slave-holding and non-slave-holding states --


  • They demand the abolition of negro slavery throughout the confederacy, the recognition of political equality between the white and the negro races, and avow their determination to press on their crusade against us, so long as a negro slave remains in these States.
  • By consolidating their strength, they have placed the slave-holding States in a hopeless minority in the federal congress, and rendered representation of no avail in protecting Southern rights against their exactions and encroachments.
  • They have refused to vote appropriations for protecting Texas against ruthless savages, for the sole reason that she is a slave-holding State.

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