The Avalon Project is the work of the Yale Law School to make available on the web documents relevant to the fields of Law, , Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. Included are documents of the Confederate States of America, including the Declarations of Secession of Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas. Mississippians were to the point -- secession was required to maintain slavery. To view these and other documents visit The Avalon Project
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/csa/csapage.htm