Goodell (1792–1878), minister and lecturer, co-founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society and editor of its first official organ, The Emancipator''. Thomas Davis (1806–1895), jewelry manufacturer, member of Congress from Rhode Island. John Todd, minister and author. Rowland Robinson, 17, future author and illustrator. Various estimates of attendance were made. 500 delegates passed through Utica en route to the Cazenovia convention. Reports give total attendance as 2,000. A newspaper story mistakenly reported that John Brown was present and "made a very fiery speech" (in 1850) about his need of funds to buy arms for his and his sons' use fighting slavery in Kansas (1855–56). This speech of Brown was at a different, later meeting (in Syracuse). Reaction Many negative reports on the convention were published by pro-slavery newspapers. The Convention was mentioned in the U.S. Senate, during debate on the 1850 Fugitive Slave Bill: Senator Daniel Dickinson, of New York, responded that Mr. Yulee "would never have alluded to it if he knew the scorn and contempt with which all such proceedings were looked upon by the great mass of people of all parties, in the North." Subsequent meetings Further meetings were announced in Canastota (October 23), Cazenovia (October 25), Hamilton (October 30), and Peterboro (November 1). Many of the participants of this convention were also involved in a later anti-fugitive slave law meeting in Syracuse, New York, on Tuesday, January 7, 1851, presided over by Frederick Douglass; 17 resolutions and an address were adopted. The daguerreotype There is one and only one visual image of the meeting, in the daguerreotype held by the Madison County Historical Society, with a smaller copy (image flipped) in the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. It was taken by Ezra Greenleaf Weld, Theodore's brother, who owned a daguerrotype studio in Cazenovia. Daguerrotypes could not be taken casually, as those being photographed had to hold themselves immobile for some seconds. That of the Cazenovia Convention is a formal group picture, outdoors because of the sunlight. It was intended for the eyes of William L. Chaplin, in jail in Washington for having assisted two slaves in an unsuccessful escape attempt. Chaplin's future wife, Theodosia Gilbert Chaplin, is seated at the table with pen and paper in hand, documenting through the picture that "the document" was indeed prepared by the group. To her left is Frederick Douglass; to her right, also with pen, is Joseph Hathaway;