The people of Georgia having dissolved their political
connection with the Government of the United States of America,
present to their confederates and the world the causes which
have led to the separation. For the last ten years we have had
numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-
holding confederate States with reference to the subject of
African slavery. They have endeavored to weaken our security, to
disturb our domestic peace and tranquility, and persistently
refused to comply with their express constitutional obligations
to us in reference to that property, and by the use of their
power in the Federal Government have striven to deprive us of an
equal enjoyment of the common Territories of the Republic. In
the momentous step which our State has taken of dissolving its
connection with the government of which we so long formed a
part, it is but just that we should declare the prominent
reasons which have induced our course. Our position is
thoroughly identified with the institution o