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Joint Resolution concerning the Convention of the People of Texas, called pursuance of the Bill of Rights. . 1861 56 (1861.1)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstx0099 and id is 1 raw text is: That the employment, therefore of force by theFederal Gov- ernment to compel any State of tbis Union to perform its obli- gations 'under the Federal Compact,'or to compel a State against the will of its people to remain a member of this Confederacy, is in violation of the Constitution, a dangerous usurpation of power, destructive of the right of free government, and fatal to the existence of the Union itself, which, formed of equal and independent sovereignties, cannot be as between conquering States and subjugated provinces. 'That should (as we have serious reason to apprehend may be, in the present condition of the Union,) the Federal Government attempt to coerce any of our sister States of the South 0byforce- of arms, into subjection to Federal rule, we assure such States of the sympathies of our people, and that we shall make com- mon cause with them in resisting, by all means and to the last exrcmity,such unconstitutional violence and tyrannical usurpa- tion of power. Passed February 1, 1861. CHAPTER III. JOINT BESOL UTION concerning the Convention of t7he .People of Texaq, called in pursuance of the Bill of Righta. WHaEAS the people of Texas; being much concerned for the preservation of the rights, liberties, and powers of the State, and its inhabitants, endangered by the political action of a ma- jority of thie States, and the people of the same have, in the exercise of powers reserved to themselves in the Bill of Rights, called a Convention, composed of two members for each Repre- sentative in the Legislatuto, from tho various districts established by the apportionment law of 1860, to assemble on the 28th day of January, 1861, at the city of Austin, which Convention, by the terms of the call, made by numerous assemblages of citizens in various Parts of the State, was, when elected and assembled, to have power to consider the condition of public affairs; to detarmine what shall be the future relations of this State to the Union, and such other matters as are necessarily and properly incident thereto ; and in case it should be determined by said Convention, that it is necessary for the preservation of the rights and liberties aforesaid, that the sovereignty of Texas should resume the powers delegated to the Federal Government

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