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Tag Archives: rufus burleson

Texas Ordinance of Secession

Baptists and the American Civil War: Feburary 2, 1861

Delegates to Texas’ secession convention – mostly slaveholders – issue a statement of Declaration of Causes, explaining their reasons for removing the state from the United States of America. Baptists Sam Houston (governor of Texas) and Rufus Burleson (president of Baylor University) disapprove, but many other Baptists in the state support the slaveholders’ decision to…

February 2, 2011 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
Texas Ordinance of Secession

Baptists and the American Civil War: February 1, 1861

Sam Houston’s delaying tactics have failed. The Union sentiments of the Baptist governor of Texas are not represented among Texas politicians at large. As Houston watches with disapproval, Texas secession delegates pass an ordinance of secession, as follows: Whereas, the Federal Government has failed to accomplish the purposes of the compact of union between these…

February 1, 2011 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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