Whereas the Government of the United States, in the possession and under the control of a sectional party, has wantonly violated the compact originally made between said Government and the State of Missouri
Whereas the present Administration of the Government of the United States has utterly ignored the Constitution, subverted the Government as constructed and intended by its makers, and established a despotic and arbitrary power instead thereof: Now, therefore,
We ask the Government of the United States to peacefully allow the State of Missouri to resume the sovereignty granted by compact to the said United States upon admission of said State into the Federal Union, and take its place as a free and independent republic amongst the nations of the earth.