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Source: From and editorial in the Texas State Gazette, October 20, 1860



"This is a Union of equal states and no state can force another state either to remain in it or withdraw from it."

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Source: From and editorial in the Texas State Gazette, October 20, 1860

"This is a Union of equal states and no state can force another state either to remain in it or withdraw from it."

Does the Texas State Gazette editorial support the right of secession? Explain.

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Source: From a speech by O.M. Roberts, president ofthe Texas Secession Convention, January 28, 1861

"The crisis upon us involves not only the right of self government, but the maintenance of a great principle in the law of nations...the true theory of our (national) government as an association of sovereignties (independent states), and not a blended mass of people in one social compact."

note: On February 1, 1861, the call for secession passed the Texas Secession Convention by a vote of 166 to 8. Two weeks later, a statewide secession referendum passed by a vote of 46,154 to 14,747.



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Source: From a speech by O.M. Roberts, president ofthe Texas Secession Convention, January 28, 1861

"The crisis upon us involves not only the right of self government, but the maintenance of a great principle in the law of nations...the true theory of our (national) government as an association of sovereignties (independent states), and not a blended mass of people in one social compact."

note: On February 1, 1861, the call for secession passed the Texas Secession Convention by a vote of 166 to 8. Two weeks later, a statewide secession referendum passed by a vote of 46,154 to 14,747.

O.M. Roberts was the

of the Texas Secession Convention in 1861.

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Source: From and editorial in the Texas State Gazette, October 20, 1860

"This is a Union of equal states and no state can force another state either to remain in it or withdraw from it."

Source: From a speech by O.M. Roberts, president ofthe Texas Secession Convention, January 28, 1861

"The crisis upon us involves not only the right of self government, but the maintenance of a great principle in the law of nations...the true theory of our (national) government as an association of sovereignties (independent states), and not a blended mass of people in one social compact."

Does Roberts agree with the Texas State Gazette? Explain.

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What is State's Rights?

• A. The ability of states to enforce international laws

• B. The rights and powers reserved to individual states rather than the federal government

• C. The right of states to secede from the union

• D. The power of states to create their own military forces

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Source: From Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address, March 4, 1861

"I hold that...the Union of these States is perpetual...No state upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union."

note: Abraham Lincoln was elected president in November 1860. He was not on the ballot in nine Southern states.

What does Abraham Lincoln think about a state's right to secede? Explain.

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Source: From and editorial in the Texas State Gazette, October 20, 1860

"This is a Union of equal states and no state can force another state either to remain in it or withdraw from it."

Source: From a speech by O.M. Roberts, president ofthe Texas Secession Convention, January 28, 1861

"The crisis upon us involves not only the right of self government, but the maintenance of a great principle in the law of nations...the true theory of our (national) government as an association of sovereignties (independent states), and not a blended mass of people in one social compact."

note: On February 1, 1861, the call for secession passed the Texas Secession Convention by a vote of 166 to 8. Two weeks later, a statewide secession referendum passed by a vote of 46,154 to 14,747.

Source: From Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address, March 4, 1861

"I hold that...the Union of these States is perpetual...No state upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union."

note: Abraham Lincoln was elected president in November 1860. He was not on the ballot in nine Southern states.

If you only had this document to refer, to how would you explain why Texans fought in the civil war?