In 1831, Simeon Jocelyn and others proposed establishing a college for negros in New Haven; there was none in the United States, and the admission of blacks into existing colleges was rare. Daggett led the opposition to this plan, which was scuttled at a town meeting when a resolution against it that Daggett helped draft was passed by a vote of a 700 to 4. At the same meeting an anti-abolitionism resolution he also helped draft was passed: "Sentiments favorable to the immediate emancipation of slaves in disregard of the civil institutions of the States in which they velong... unwarrantable and dangerous interference with the internal concerns of other States, and ought to be discouraged."