Texas did attempt to secede in late January and early February 1861. A Texas state representative from the Hill Country wants to give Texans the ability to vote on secession due to an "out of control" federal government. "The bottom line is that any state — or confederation of states — can illegally secede from the Union. Texit, as it's become known, is poised for a major boost this week with the expected introduction of a bill in the state legislature to put the question of secession to voters in a November 2021 ballot referendum.. Texas held a convention in Austin and voted to secede from the Union. Texas attempt at Secession. This started as a result of Abraham Lincoln being elected president. After the Civil War, in 1869, Texas was at the center of the Supreme Court ruling that determined that the states that seceded during the war never actually had the ability to leave the Union… Garner’s idea went nowhere. Texas left the United States on Feb. 1, 1861, when Gov. Sixteen years after Texas joined the United States, in January 1861, the Secession Convention met in Austin and adopted an Ordinance of Secession on February 1 and a Declaration of Causes on February 2. Here are the reasons why Texas seceded: A Declaration of the Causes which Impel the State of Texas to Secede from the Federal Union. "When Texas became one of the United States, she entered into an indissoluble relation," … Texas became an independent nation in 1836 and remained that way until its admission into the Union in 1845. A state convention in Austin voted 166-8 in favor of secession. A year ago this week, more than 125,000 people signed a secession petition asking the Obama administration to “Peacefully grant the State of Texas to withdraw from the United States of America and create its own NEW government.” The court held that individual states could not secede from the Union. Thanks to the terms of Texas’ 1845 admission to the Union, he argued, the state could split anytime, without any action from Congress—a power no other state has. After the Civil War and Reconstruction of the 1860s, Texas was fully re-admitted into the Union in 1870. Four states went further. On this day in 1861, Texas became the seventh state to secede from the Union. Texas, Mississippi, Georgia and South Carolina all issued additional documents, usually referred to as the “Declarations of Causes," which explain their decision to leave the Union. A state convention in 1861 voted 166 to 8 in favor of secession — a measure that was then ratified by a popular vote, making Texas the seventh state to secede from the Union… But the result, as we discovered in 1861, is Civil War." Every state in the Confederacy issued an “Article of Secession” declaring their break from the Union. Sam Houston refused to swear allegiance to the Confederate States of America.