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Mar 2, 1861:
Texas secedes from the Union
On this day in 1861, Texas becomes the seventh state to secede
from the Union when a state convention votes 166 to 8 in favor of
the measure.
The Texans who voted to leave the Union did so over the
objections of their governor, Sam Houston. A staunch Unionist,
Houston's election in 1859 as governor seemed to indicate that
Texas did not share the rising secessionist sentiments of the
other Southern states.
However, events swayed many Texans to the secessionist cause.
John Brown's raid on the federal armory at Harper's Ferry,
Virginia (now West Virginia), in October 1859 had raised the
specter of a major slave insurrection, and the ascendant
Republican Party made many Texans uneasy about continuing in the
Union. After Abraham Lincoln's election to the presidency in
November 1860, pressure mounted on Houston to call a convention
so that Texas could consider secession. He did so reluctantly in
January 1861, and sat in silence on February 1 as the convention
voted overwhelmingly in favor of secession. Houston grumbled that
Texans were "stilling the voice of reason," and he predicted an
"ignoble defeat" for the South. Houston refused to take an oath
of allegiance to the Confederacy and was replaced in March 1861
by his lieutenant governor.
Texas' move completed the first round of secession. Seven
states--South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, and Texas--left the Union before Lincoln took office.
Four more states--Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and
Arkansas-- waited until the formal start of the Civil War, with
the April 1861 firing on Fort Sumter at Charleston, South
Carolina, before deciding to leave the Union. The remaining slave
states--Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri--never
mustered the necessary majority for secession.
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