Louisiana was another state that didn’t publish a Declaration of Causes. In addition, she didn’t make a statement in her Ordinance of Secession regarding why she was seceding. However, like other states she sent out secession commissioners. We have the speech of one of these commissioners, George Williamson, to the Texas Secession Convention.
[begin quote]To the Hon. O.M. Roberts, President of the Convention of the People of Texas.
Mr. President and Gentlemen of the people of Texas.
I have the honor to address you as the commissioner of the people of Louisiana, accredited to your honorable body. With this communication, by the favor of your presiding officer, will be laid before you my credentials, the ordinance of secession, a resolution in regard to the Mississippi river and the ordinance to provide for the appointment of delegates to a convention to form a Southern Confederacy. These ordinances and the resolution were adopted at their respective dates by the people of Louisiana in convention assembled, after serious debate and calm reflection.
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