This is part of the letter of secession from Texas, sent to the federal
government *before* Lincoln took office:

"We hold as undeniable truths that the governments of the various
States, and of the confederacy itself, were established exclusively by
the white race, for themselves and their posterity; that the African
race had no agency in their establishment; that they were rightfully
held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race, and in that
condition only could their existence in this country be rendered
beneficial or tolerable.

"That in this free government all white men are and of right ought to be
entitled to equal civil and political rights [emphasis in the original];
that the servitude of the African race, as existing in these States, is
mutually beneficial to both bond and free, and is abundantly authorized
and justified by the experience of mankind, and the revealed will of the
Almighty Creator, as recognized by all Christian nations; while the
destruction of the existing relations between the two races, as
advocated by our sectional enemies, would bring inevitable calamities
upon both and desolation upon the fifteen slave-holding states."

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Jesus willed slavery, by god!