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The Texas Declaration of Independence :
March 2, 1836
The Unanimous Declaration of Independence
made by the Delegates of the People of Texas in
General Convention at the town of Washington on
the 2nd day of March 1836.
When a government has ceased to protect the
lives, liberty and property of the people, from
whom its legitimate powers are derived, and for
the advancement of whose happiness it was
instituted, and so far from being a guarantee for
the enjoyment of those inestimable and inalienable
rights, becomes an instrument in the hands of evil
rulers for their oppression.
When the Federal Republican Constitution of their
country, which they have sworn to support, no
longer has a substantial existence, and the whole
nature of their government has been forcibly
changed, without their consent, from a restricted
federative republic, composed of sovereign states,
to a consolidated central military despotism, in
which every interest is disregarded but that of the
army and the priesthood, both the eternal enemies
of civil liberty, the everready minions of power,
and the usual instruments of tyrants.
When, long after the spirit of the constitution has
departed, moderation is at length so far lost by
those in power, that even the semblance of
freedom is removed, and the forms themselves of
the constitution discontinued, and so far from their
petitions and remonstrances being regarded, the
agents who bear them are thrown into dungeons,
and mercenary armies sent forth to force a new
government upon them at the point of the bayonet.
When, in consequence of such acts of
malfeasance and abdication on the part of the
government, anarchy prevails, and civil society is
dissolved into its original elements.
In such a crisis, the first law of nature, the right of
self-preservation, the inherent and inalienable
rights of the people to appeal to first principles, and
take their political affairs into their own hands in
extreme cases, enjoins it as a right towards
themselves, and a sacred obligation to their
posterity, to abolish such government, and create
another in its stead, calculated to rescue them from
impending dangers, and to secure their future
welfare and happiness.
Nations, as well as individuals, are amenable for
their acts to the public opinion of mankind.
A statement of a part of our grievances is
therefore submitted to an impartial world, in
justification of the hazardous but unavoidable step
now taken, of severing our political connection
with the Mexican people, and assuming an
independent attitude among the nations of the
earth.
The Mexican government, by its colonization
laws, invited and induced the Anglo-American
population of Texas to colonize its wilderness
under the pledged faith of a written constitution,
that they should continue to enjoy that
constitutional liberty and republican government to
which they had been habituated in the land of their
birth, the United States of America.
In this expectation they have been cruelly
disappointed, inasmuch as the Mexican nation has
acquiesced in the late changes made in the
government by
General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who
having overturned the constitution of his country,
now offers us the cruel alternative, either to
abandon our homes, acquired by so many
privations, or submit to the most intolerable of all
tyranny, the combined despotism of the sword and
the priesthood.
It has sacrificed our welfare to the state of
Coahuila, by which our interests have been
continually depressed through a jealous and partial
course of legislation, carried on at a far distant
seat of government, by a hostile majority, in an
unknown tongue, and this too, notwithstanding we
have petitioned in the humblest terms for the
establishment of a separate state government, and
have, in accordance with the provisions of the
national constitution, presented to the general
Congress a republican constitution, which was,
without just cause, contemptuously rejected.
It incarcerated in a dungeon, for a long time, one
of our citizens, for no other cause but a zealous
endeavor to procure the acceptance of our
constitution, and the establishment of a state
government.
It has failed and refused to secure, on a firm basis,
the right of trial by jury, that palladium of civil
liberty, and only safe guarantee for the life, liberty,
and property of the citizen.
It has failed to establish any public system of
education, although possessed of almost boundless
resources, (the public domain,) and although it is
an axiom in political science, that unless a people
are educated and enlightened, it is idle to expect
the continuance of civil liberty, or the capacity for
self government.
It has suffered the military commandants,
stationed among us, to exercise arbitrary acts of
oppression and tyrrany, thus trampling upon the
most sacred rights of the citizens, and rendering
the military superior to the civil power.
It has dissolved, by force of arms, the state
Congress of Coahuila and Texas, and obliged our
representatives to fly for their lives from the seat
of government, thus depriving us of the
fundamental political right of representation.
It has demanded the surrender of a number of our
citizens, and ordered military detachments to seize
and carry them into the Interior for trial, in
contempt of the civil authorities, and in defiance of
the laws and the constitution.
It has made piratical attacks upon our commerce,
by commissioning foreign desperadoes, and
authorizing them to seize our vessels, and convey
the property of our citizens to far distant ports for
confiscation.
It denies us the right of worshipping the Almighty
according to the dictates of our own conscience,
by the support of a national religion, calculated to
promote the temporal interest of its human
functionaries, rather than the glory of the true and
living God.
It has demanded us to deliver up our arms, which
are essential to our defence, the rightful property
of freemen, and formidable only to tyrannical
governments.
It has invaded our country both by sea and by land,
with intent to lay waste our territory, and drive us
from our homes; and has now a large mercenary
army advancing, to carry on against us a war of
extermination.
It has, through its emissaries, incited the merciless
savage, with the tomahawk and scalping knife, to
massacre the inhabitants of our defenseless
frontiers.
It hath been, during the whole time of our
connection with it, the contemptible sport and
victim of successive military revolutions, and hath
continually exhibited every characteristic of a
weak, corrupt, and tyrranical government.
These, and other grievances, were patiently borne
by the people of Texas, untill they reached that
point at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
We then took up arms in defence of the national
constitution.
We appealed to our Mexican brethren for
assistance.
Our appeal has been made in vain.
Though months have elapsed, no sympathetic
response has yet been heard from the Interior.
We are, therefore, forced to the melancholy
conclusion, that the Mexican people have
acquiesced in the destruction of their liberty, and
the substitution therfor of a military government;
that they are unfit to be free, and incapable of
self government.
The necessity of self-preservation, therefore, now
decrees our eternal political separation.
We, therefore, the delegates with plenary powers
of the people of Texas, in solemn convention
assembled, appealing to a candid world for the
necessities of our condition, do hereby resolve and
declare, that our political connection with the
Mexican nation has forever ended, and that the
people of Texas do now constitute a free,
Sovereign, and independent republic, and are fully
invested with all the rights and attributes which
properly belong to independent nations; and,
conscious of the rectitude of our intentions, we
fearlessly and confidently commit the issue to the
decision of the Supreme arbiter of the destinies of
nations.
Richard Ellis, President of the Convention and
Delegate from Red River.
Charles B. Stewart
Tho. Barnett
John S. D. Byrom
Francis Ruis
J. Antonio Navarro
Jesse B. Badgett
Wm D. Lacy
William Menifee
Jn. Fisher
Matthew Caldwell
William Motley
Lorenzo de Zavala
Stephen H. Everett
George W. Smyth
Elijah Stapp
Claiborne West
Wm. B. Scates
M. B. Menard
A. B. Hardin
J. W. Burton
Thos. J. Gazley
R. M. Coleman
Sterling C. Robertson
James Collinsworth
Edwin Waller
Asa Brigham
Geo. C. Childress
Bailey Hardeman
Rob. Potter
Thomas Jefferson Rusk
Chas. S. Taylor
John S. Roberts
Robert Hamilton
Collin McKinney
Albert H. Latimer
James Power
Sam Houston
David Thomas
Edwd. Conrad
Martin Palmer
Edwin O. Legrand
Stephen W. Blount
Jms. Gaines
Wm. Clark, Jr.
Sydney O. Pennington
Wm. Carrol Crawford
Jno. Turner
Benj. Briggs Goodrich
G. W. Barnett
James G. Swisher
Jesse Grimes
S. Rhoads Fisher
John W. Moore
John W. Bower
Saml. A. Maverick (from Bejar)
Sam P. Carson
A. Briscoe
J. B. Woods
H. S. Kimble, Secretary
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