Ordinances and Decrees of the Consultation, Provisional Government of Texas and the Convention, Which Assembled at Washington March 1, 1836. Page: 3
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DECLARATION
Of the People of Texas. in General Convention
assembled.
WHEREAS, General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
and other Military Chieftains have, by force of arms,
overthrown the Federal Institutions of Mexico, and
dissolved the Social Compact which existed between
Texas and the other Members of the Mexican Confederacy-Now,
the good People of Texas, availing
themselves of their natural' rights,
SOLEMNLY DECLARE1st.
That they have taken up arms in defence of their
Rights and Liberties, which were threatened by the encroachments
of military despots, and in defence of the
Republican Principles of the Federal Constitution of
Mexico of eighteen hundred and twenty-four.
2d. That Texas is no longer, morally or civilly, bound
by the Compact of Union; yet, stimulated by the generosity
and sympathy common to a free people, they offer
their support and assistance to such of the Members of
the Mexican Confederacy as will take up arms against
military despotism.
3d. That they do not acknowledge, that the present
authorities of the nominal Mexican Republic have the
right to govern within the limits of Texas,
4th. That they will not cease to carry on war against
the said authorities, whilst their troops are within the
limits of Texas.
5th. That they hold it to be their right, during -the
disorganization of the Federal System and the reignQof
despotism, to withdraw from the Union, to gblish a
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Texas (Republic). Secretary of State. Ordinances and Decrees of the Consultation, Provisional Government of Texas and the Convention, Which Assembled at Washington March 1, 1836., book, 1838; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth45353/m1/3/?q=Spanish%20Texas: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .