TEXAS -- SECESSION, 1861]. Declaration of the Causes which impel the State of Texas to secede from the Federal Union--also the Ordinance of Secession. [San Antonio:] Herald Office, [1861]. Folio broadside (19½ in x 13½ in.), PRINTED ON FINE SATIN, heading in gothic letter, text in five columns, decorative borders of printers' flowers (fragile, several clean tears and small holes just catching a dozen or so letters). TEXAS'S "CAUSES" AND SECESSION ORDINANCE: A COPY PRINTED ON SATIN THAT BELONGED TO DELEGATE B.F. MOSS, A SECESSIONIST A very rare broadside printing of Texas' bellicose Declaration of the Causes and the formal Ordinance of Secession, passed by the Texas legislature in convention at Austin on 1 February 1861 and submitted as a referendum "to the people of Texas, for their ratification or rejection." A column and a half is devoted to names of the 174 delegates who voted in favor the ordinance (the seven who voted nay are listed in a note at bottom). The original owner of this broadside, B.F. Moss, a delegate from Lavaca County, is listed in column 5. South Carolina had seceded on December 20, 1860, and other states quickly followed suit. In Texas, Governor Houston reluctantly yielded to public pressure and convened a convention at Austin in late January. On February 1, the delegates voted for secession by an overwhelming majority (167 to 7). As Fehrenbach writes, "the six causes for Texas' secession are historically important; they revealed the dominant Texas mind..." ( Lone Star , p.345). Despite heroic efforts by Houston and his Unionist supporters to win the popular vote, the act was ratified, independence was declared on 2 May and contacts were made with the provisional Confederate government (which had already admitted Texas, before it even applied). Some copies of the broadside carry a note that copies were available on fine satin for $1 and on fine paper for ten cents. The present example is apparently a different setting, without that notice, but with a note giving the exact vote tally. Parrish & Willingham 4151; Winkler & Friend, p.26 (both with price notice).
TEXAS -- SECESSION, 1861]. Declaration of the Causes which impel the State of Texas to secede from the Federal Union--also the Ordinance of Secession. [San Antonio:] Herald Office, [1861]. Folio broadside (19½ in x 13½ in.), PRINTED ON FINE SATIN, heading in gothic letter, text in five columns, decorative borders of printers' flowers (fragile, several clean tears and small holes just catching a dozen or so letters). TEXAS'S "CAUSES" AND SECESSION ORDINANCE: A COPY PRINTED ON SATIN THAT BELONGED TO DELEGATE B.F. MOSS, A SECESSIONIST A very rare broadside printing of Texas' bellicose Declaration of the Causes and the formal Ordinance of Secession, passed by the Texas legislature in convention at Austin on 1 February 1861 and submitted as a referendum "to the people of Texas, for their ratification or rejection." A column and a half is devoted to names of the 174 delegates who voted in favor the ordinance (the seven who voted nay are listed in a note at bottom). The original owner of this broadside, B.F. Moss, a delegate from Lavaca County, is listed in column 5. South Carolina had seceded on December 20, 1860, and other states quickly followed suit. In Texas, Governor Houston reluctantly yielded to public pressure and convened a convention at Austin in late January. On February 1, the delegates voted for secession by an overwhelming majority (167 to 7). As Fehrenbach writes, "the six causes for Texas' secession are historically important; they revealed the dominant Texas mind..." ( Lone Star , p.345). Despite heroic efforts by Houston and his Unionist supporters to win the popular vote, the act was ratified, independence was declared on 2 May and contacts were made with the provisional Confederate government (which had already admitted Texas, before it even applied). Some copies of the broadside carry a note that copies were available on fine satin for $1 and on fine paper for ten cents. The present example is apparently a different setting, without that notice, but with a note giving the exact vote tally. Parrish & Willingham 4151; Winkler & Friend, p.26 (both with price notice).
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