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A FECLARATION
uile reder'al Uhon.
The Governmient of the suited S rates, 1 'Cert 1 n
ieOlJtioi-, bearing dn'ta C1+-;ie Q A.
A. D., 1845, proposed to the Republic of Texam, then a rme,
reigand t indepedent natio , th, annexaItf ;pf the ltt ;it,
IJ the i+rm1, as one of the co-equal States thievt-.
Thepeople Of Texs, by Dopltics in Convntion assem bLd,
(- the fourtli day of July of the same year, assent;1 t an
'pte(d said proposals,_ and formed a constituton for the ro-
oSe'd State, Rpon which, on th, Lw en-ninth d oa ofD
ofthe same -,ear, said Stuate wa s -fo.:'nally receive!. into the' 001-
I'IJrated Un '0 1n
Texas abandoned her separate national 'x1istenic' and consc-n i"d
<become one of the Confederated States, to promio te her
wV lfare, insure domestic tranquility and secure miorc sulb)-an-
Eally the blessings of liberty and peace to her people. She a
)-.Ceive~d into the confederacy, with Ler owNv cons titiution, un:der
'he gua rantees of the Federal Comstituition and the ecomrparr of
Eannexation, that she should enjoy thesc blessings. She wxas re-
/(=jved as a commonwealth ho'din-, inainit aining, and p~rotec ttilg
e masrntution known as negro sLavery-the servitude of th At=
n'ean -to the white raco within her , limits-a re ationi that Ii aI
Existed from the first settlement of her wilderness Tw the -whit-
r1-1{e, and which her people intended should continue to exist it)
a future tine. 11er 4 ns t iutiOnlb aid gcogr't hical pstn s-
