But a look through the declaration of causes written by South Carolina and four of the 10 states that followed it out of the Union — which, taken together, paint a kind of self-portrait of the Confederacy — reveals a different story.
Though Alabama declined to write its own Declaration of Causes for secession (Georgia, Mississippi, Texas, South Carolina, and Virginia's can be read here), Davis's own words are more than clear.
These misrepresentations, Erekson writes, include excluding Native Americans from the standards curriculum until recently and citing states' rights as a cause of the Civil War when Texas did not cite it in their historical "Declaration of Causes".
For example, Texas' Declaration for Cause of Secession in 1861 was centered on the hatefully exclusionary premise that the governments of various states were established solely for and by a superior white race and that Blacks were naturally inferior and should remain as such.
All that is needed is the declaration of common cause, on the solid substrate of common ground.
The soaring words of the Declaration of Independence caused many people to pause over the spectacle of humankind being treated like property in the ostensible land of liberty.
While a further appeal was addressed to the British people (mainly at Dickinson's insistence), the Congress raised an army, adopted a Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, and appointed committees to deal with domestic supply and foreign affairs.
He wrote key declarations such as the "Summary View of the Rights of British Americans" (1774), "Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms" (1775), and the "Declaration of Independence" (1776); authored numerous bills; and wrote his Manual of Parliamentary Practice for the Use of the Senate of the United States, a modified copy of which was still in use till 1977.
However, some Russian historians who are not advocates of the Communist era maintain that the Hungarian declaration of neutrality caused the Kremlin to intervene a second time.
Spanish Justice Minister Rafael Catalá warned Monday that any declaration of independence could cause the central government to invoke Article 155 of the country's constitution, which allows Madrid to intervene in the running of an autonomous region.
ON DECEMBER 24th 1860 the government of South Carolina issued a "Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina".
