Declaration Of Independence Of The Republic Of Texas

During the late 1835 general rebellion, Texans take Presidio La Bahía at Goliad and lay siege to San Antonio. At the same time U.S. volunteers begin arriving for the Texas fight. While one group of revolutionaries was fighting for Texas on the battlefield, at the same time there was another group was meeting to decide Texas’s fate.

When delegates to the first Consultation met in November 1835, they had a decision to make: should Texas remaining part of Mexico or seek independence. They called a second meeting of the Consultation on March 1, 1836, hoping that events would help them make their decision.

On March 1, 1836, the delegates gathered at Washington-on-the-Brazos for the second meeting of the Consultation, also known as the Convention of 1836 and one of the convention’s first acts of business was to declare independence from Mexico. There were total of 59 delegates attended the convention. They were from Mexico, Scotland, England, Ireland and 12 U.S. states.

The Convention of 1836 penned the Texas Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the Republic of Texas and structured the ad interim government. The convention also selected Sam Houston as a commander in chief of the military forces of the republic. The delegates declared Texas independent the next day, March 2.

George Campbell Childress was the primary author of the Texas Declaration of Independence and chairman of the committee of five members to draft the document.
Declaration Of Independence Of The Republic Of Texas