The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 15, July 1911 - April, 1912 Page: 183
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Declaration of Causes
183
3d. That they do not acknowledge that the present authori-
ties of the nominal Mexican republic have the right to govern
within the limits of Texas.1
4th. That they will not cease to carry on war against the
said authorities whilst their troops are within the limits of Texas.2
5th. That they hold it to be their right during the disor-
ganization of the federal system, and the reign of despotism, to
withdraw from the union, to establish an independent govern-
ment, or to adopt such measures as they may deem best calcu-
lated to protect their rights and liberties, but that they will con-
tinue faithful to the Mexican government so long as that nation
is governed by the constitution and laws that were formed for the
government of the political association.
6th. That Texas is responsible for the expenses of her armies
now in the field.
7th. That the public faith of Texas is pledged for the pay-
ment of any debts contracted by her agents.
8th. That she will reward, by donations in lands, all who
volunteer their services in her present struggle, and receive them
as citizens.3
These declarations we solemnly avow to the world, and call
God to witness their truth and sincerity, and invoke defeat and
disgrace upon our heads, should we prove guilty of duplicity.4
One of the eight articles of the declaration was drawn from
Williamson's draft; two were taken from Number 4, which was
probably another form of Williamson's draft; two were from Bar-
rett, a peace party man; and the three final paragraphs were sug-
gested by the president's inaugural address.
A thousand copies of the declaration were ordered printed, and
upon the motion of General Houston it was ordered on the 8th
declare that they are no longer bound to adhere to a people that have
changed that form of Government created by the compact of 1824 of which
Tejas formed an integral part."
1Compare the ninth section of Williamson's plan: "They declare that
they are separate from, and Independent of That form of Government that
at present exists in Mexico."
2Compare Barrett's: "We declare and resolve that we will never while
a free American can raise a weapon in Texas, suffer its soil to be pol-
luted by the usurper or his myrmidons, and that we will trust to our
arms, a just cause-the sympathy and justice of Nations, and our omnip-
otent God, for certain success in all we claim."
'The last three resolutions seem to have been suggested by the Presi-
dent's inaugural address. See Journals of the Consultation, 7-8.
'Journals of the Consultation, 21-22.
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