When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
“We the People of the Nebraska”, to protect our future security, has sought to withdraw from this union; and that as free and independent state, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent state may of right do.