Proceedings of the State Disunion Convention, Held at Worcester, Massachusetts, January 15, 1857 .. - Couverture rigide
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Yo, the undorsigned, citizens of Worcester, believing the result of the recent Presi(k ntial Electi on to involve four years more of Pro-S lavery Government, and a rapid increase in the hostility between the two sections of the Union :B elieving this hostility to be the offspring, not of party excitement, but of a fundamental difference in education, habits, and laws :B elievinothe existing Union to be a failure, as being a hopeless attempt to unite under one government two antagonistic systems of society, which diverge more widely with every year: .. l And believing it to be the duty of intelligent and conscientious men to meet these facts with wisdom and firmness :R espectfully invite our fellow-citizens of Massachusetts to meet m Convention at Worcester, on Thursday, Jan. 15, to consider the practicability, probability, and expediency, of a Separation between the Free and Slave States, and to take such other measures as the condition of the times may require. Thos. W. Higginson, Thomas Earle, Henry H. Chamberlin, Scth llogers, D. C. Gates, O. D. Haven,- Ebeuezer Hemenway, Theophilus Brown, David Mc Farland, Jr., Lewis A. Bacom, H. G. O. Blake, O. F. Harris, A. R. Marsh, Elbridge Boy den, I vers Gibbs, E. F. Rogers, Stephen S. Foster, Isaac Bartlett, Win. B. Earle, I ra T. A llen, Caleb C. Caprou, C. H. Cross, B. B. Marshall, I). R. Gates, Vm. D. Cady, Isaac Mason, William J. Brown, Allen Walker, Charles F. AU en, J. L. Tarbox, Wm. Henry Xourse, Alfred Wvman, S. D. Tourtclotte, Effingham L. Capron, Frederick A. M. Perry, Addison P. Smith, Ral)h T. Phiney, V. R. Bu Uard, Richard T. Buck, N. G. livman, T. P. Hastings, W. D. G. Mc Vey, Isaac Smith, G. U. Campbell, Joseph A. How Lind, Thos. W. Houchin, E. S. Howes, Isaac Howes, Nathan Harkness, C. D. Marcy, J. H. Crane, Everett L. Sweet, Appleton Fay, George R. Johnson, J. B.B ell, Wdliam Green, Peter Williams
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