William Lloyd Garrison and Francis Jackson were present, but took no part whatever.

I rode to Boston in a freight car after the convention was over, late at night.
Garrison and Jackson were sitting together and talking to a group of friends.

Garrison seemed much delighted with the day's work, but said he heard too much talk about the likelihood that some of the resolutions would be popular and bring large numbers of votes to the party.

He said: "All you should ask is, what is the rightful position?
and then take it." Among the resolutions was this: "That Massachusetts looks to Daniel Webster to declare to the Senate and to uphold before the country the policy of the Free States; that she is relieved to know that he has not endorsed the nomination of General Taylor; and that she invokes him at this crisis to turn a deaf ear to 'optimists' and 'quietists', and to speak and act as his heart and his great mind shall lead him." Daniel Webster's son Fletcher was present, and heartily in accord with the meeting; and this resolution was passed with his full approval.

It met great opposition from the men who had come into the movement from the Liberty Party and from the Democratic Party.