The servitude of the African race is mutually beneficial to both bond and free... a hostility to these Southern States and their beneficent and patriarchal system of African slavery. All white men are, of right, entitled to equal civil and political rights.
Original passage & context
"We the delegates of the people of Texas, in Convention assembled, have passed an ordinance dissolving all political connection with the government of the United States of America [...] the servitude of the African race, as existing in these States, is mutually beneficial to both bond and free [...] based upon an unnatural feeling of hostility to these Southern States and their beneficent and patriarchal system of African slavery [...] all white men are and of right ought to be entitled to equal civil and political rights."
The cascade's last state before Montgomery, and the most explicit. Where Mississippi argued economics (se-020) and Georgia counted dollars (se-026), Texas states the creed plainly: slavery 'mutually beneficial to both bond and free,' a 'beneficent and patriarchal system,' and equal rights reserved to 'all white men.' The ordinance passed February 1; this declaration February 2. Non-contiguous sentences joined with [...]; verified against the Yale Avalon Project.
Read it in the original — Texas Declaration of Causes, Feb 2, 1861 ↗