 A. M. Chapman was the acting vice president; Delany, the corresponding secretary.In 1859, "A Declaration of Liberty by the Representatives of the Slave Population of the United States of America" was written.Although nearly all of the delegates signed the constitution, very few volunteered to join Brown's forces, although it will never be clear how many Canadian expatriates actually intended to join Brown because of a subsequent "security leak" that threw off plans for the raid, creating a hiatus in which Brown lost contact with many of the Canadian leaders.