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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactstx0125 and id is 1 raw text is: JOINT IESOLUTIONS.
CHAPTER 1.
JOINT RESOLUTIONS Concerning Pcueo, Reconstruction and Independence.
WniuEREAs, Among the political parties In the United States the question of
a re-union of those States with these of the Confederacy is being agitated, and
in order to promote such re-union it is urged that delegates be choseni from each
of tile States in tile Confederacy, and tn the Union, to meet la convenioa to
reform the Coustitution of the United States, wlIich propositio, is coipled with
the quasi pledge, thait such atr.enslments shall be made to that constitution as
will forever guarantee the lnstiution of African Slavery in the States ill this
Confederacy; and, Wherenan it is possible that the political party Il the United
States advocating that proposition may prevail at the approaching election in
tdioo.ing the Executivo of that Government, and that consequently the forego-
lug proposition may be attempted to be niade to the States of the Confederacy ;
now we of the State of Texas, believing that it is proper to meet such proposition
in advance, have resolved as follows:
RESOLYvJ:n 1. Be it resolved by the Legibslaure of the State of Texas, That
neither the above proposition nor any other cal be mad,. to the people of t0hi
State, by the United States or any other foreign people, the Government of the
Confederate States being tile only organ of the Stutes ill the Confcderaey for the
transaction of busitess with foreign nations, anl Such popoition, If' made at dl,
must be iado to the Government of the Coiifederate. States, and if' made to the
Government of this State, will not be entertained.
RESOL'rIOx 2. That we recognize il that proposition no good faith, but
merely an Insidious policy to divide and coluer, a policy uirougl 'whivih it
is hoped to detach some of' the States from the Confederacy, thereby to weaken
and demoralize the rest. To accomplish this an appeal is arude to ou love of
property which as it is the all prevailing motive to the action of the people of the
North, they supposed would control our conduct.
RESOLUTION 3. That It will be well for the people of the North to under-
stand, even at this late (Ily, .that the Southern States did not secede from the
Union upon any question buch as the lere preservation of tile slave property of
their citizens, flat, that being free atl sovereign States, they were resolvcil to
preserve their freedom and their sovereignty. They were free to govern theiii-
selves as they, and not as others saw fit. They were free to change their
governmot, to erect a new one, and to make whatever alliances they should
choose. And after nearly four yearsof arduous war, these States are :till an-
wavering in their resolution to preserve their freedota and their sovereignty,
without which all elsa is valueless.
]lESQL'JTIoN 4. That, could the present war and all its horrors be blotted
out of our memories, our past experience, while In tile Union, would warn us
frons any re-union with the people of the North. A written constitution adopted](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactstx0125&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)