First of all, your initial question was answered. You regurgitated the Texas Ordinance of Secession after I made a direct reference and included it in my post. Anyone can formulate an idea and then support it by taking excerpts of documents and using them out of the context intended by the author(s). That is just what the "Liberal Thinker" has done. These declarations of secession by themselves challenge his assertion and at least partially answer your first question.