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A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the
Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union.
In the momentous step which our State has taken of dissolving its connection with the
government of which we so long formed a part, it is but just that we should declare the prominent
reasons which have induced our course.
Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery– the greatest material interest
of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important
portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical
regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the
tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow
at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point
of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of
abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin.
That we do not overstate the dangers to our institution, a reference to a few facts will sufficiently
prove.
The hostility to this institution commenced before the adoption of the Constitution, and was
manifested in the well-known Ordinance of 1787, in regard to the Northwestern Territory.
The feeling increased, until, in 1819-20, it deprived the South of more than half the vast territory
acquired from France.
The same hostility dismembered Texas and seized upon all the territory acquired from Mexico.
It has grown until it denies the right of property in slaves, and refuses protection to that right on
the high seas, in the Territories, and wherever the government of the United States had jurisdiction.
It refuses the admission of new slave States into the Union, and seeks to extinguish it by
confining it within its present limits, denying the power of expansion.
It tramples the original equality of the South under foot.
It has nullified the Fugitive Slave Law in almost every free State in the Union, and has utterly
broken the compact which our fathers pledged their faith to maintain.
It advocates negro equality, socially and politically, and promotes insurrection and incendiarism
in our midst.
It has enlisted its press, its pulpit and its schools against us, until the whole popular mind of the
North is excited and inflamed with prejudice.
It has made combinations and formed associations to carry out its schemes of emancipation in
the States and wherever else slavery exists.
It seeks not to elevate or to support the slave, but to destroy his present condition without
providing a better.
It has invaded a State, and invested with the honors of martyrdom the wretch whose purpose
was to apply flames to our dwellings, and the weapons of destruction to our lives.
It has broken every compact into which it has entered for our security.
It has given indubitable evidence of its design to ruin our agriculture, to prostrate our industrial
pursuits and to destroy our social system.
It knows no relenting or hesitation in its purposes; it stops not in its march of aggression, and
leaves us no room to hope for cessation or for pause.
It has recently obtained control of the Government, by the prosecution of its unhallowed
schemes, and destroyed the last expectation of living together in friendship and brotherhood.
Utter subjugation awaits us in the Union, if we should consent longer to remain in it. It is not a
matter of choice, but of necessity. We must either submit to degradation, and to the loss of property
worth four billions of money, or we must secede from the Union framed by our fathers, to secure this
as well as every other species of property. For far less cause than this, our fathers separated from
the Crown of England.
Our decision is made. We follow their footsteps. We embrace the alternative of separation; and
for the reasons here stated, we resolve to maintain our rights with the full consciousness of the
justice of our course, and the undoubting belief of our ability to maintain it.
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In “A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union,· the state of
Mississippi provides a series of grievances about the federal government that led the state to secede. Which of the following appears on that list?
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“It refuses the admission of new slave States into the Union, and seeks to extinguish it by confining it within its present limits, denying the power
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“It advocates negro equality, socially and politcally, and promotes insurrection and incendiarism in our midst.”
“It has made combinations and formed associatinos to carry out its scheme of emancipation in the States and wherever else slavery exists.•
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In “A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union,• the state of
Mississippi explains “Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-the greatest material interest of the world.•
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In “Apostles of Secession,” Charles Dew concludes which of the following were “critical elements in the coming of the war.”
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states’ rights
taxes
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In “Apoelles of Secesaion,” Charles Daw concludes which of the following went “critical etemenls In the 001114ng of the war.·
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states’ rights
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The speeches and letters of secession commissioners.
Oral hi&tales of enslaved people.
Jefferson Davis’s speeches after Iha CMI War.
Texas’s Declaration of Secession.
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In the Dew artlcle. George Williamson wroea to the Texas convenlon considering secession and wrote that ‘it would be a graat blow to stale8’ rights if
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