Believing that the election of Buchanan would mean another four years of pro-slavery government, several abolitionists, led by T. W. Higginson, sent out a call for a convention to be held in Worcester, in January, 1857, to consider a separation between the Free and the Slave States.
. . .The Disunion Convention was very successful and commanded general respect, whatever the newspapers may say. I am sorry, dearest mother, you differ from me about it, but I never was more sure of being right. It is written in the laws of nature that two antagonistic nations cannot remain together; every year is dividing us more and more, and the sooner we see it, the better we can prepare for a peaceful and dignified policy.A few years later the writer of the above was fighting to preserve the Union! This was written after the brutal attack on Sumner in the Senate
