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The following documents focus on the experiences of the American delegates , specifically Jane Addams , Emily Greene Balch , and Alice Hamilton , during their European travels . The reading of this statement , according to several delegates , was an untransparent action as there was no explanation at the session as to how the statement had come about , whether the contact group had met in full membership , and who had taken the decision to enable it to be termed a " collective understanding . This nagging issue of possible federal intervention in slave traffic , which Sherman and others feared could irrevocably split northern and southern delegates , was settled by , in Mason 's words , " a bargain . Changes and Cancellations If at any time prior to the assembly you find that you are unable to serve as a commissioner / advisory delegate , immediately contact your presbytery ( or in the case of TSADs , your seminary ) so that plans for an alternate can be made . Undaunted by the dilemma , Potemkin decided to construct false villages along the route to be taken by the European delegates , and placed painted facades of villages further in the distance . The American delegates , having seen more Italians in New York than there are in Fiume , without regarding New York as Italian , fixed their eyes on Fiume as a central European port of entry .