 The document specifies several reasons for secession, including its solidarity with its "sister slave-holding States," the U.S. government's inability to prevent Indian attacks, slave-stealing raids, and other border-crossing acts of banditry.It accuses northern politicians and abolitionists of committing a variety of outrages upon Texans.The bulk of the document offers justifications for slavery saying that remaining a part of the United States would jeopardize the security of the two.