The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-07-25
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Haven, Ceonectcut on Sunday, July ~ 1886, having
lived to behold the rise progress and complete
OF the party TO which he was devoted. His name was
never prominent his influence never widely Distributed
yet me one was felt and the other 10 dested to die
with the man, Having been part of the events which
distinguished the remarkable ags In which hs lived his
career must be told his nAasnes s 70 felt
after, though the man be deaA II Ge m i9v ai.e
Arthur rappan was born IN NsrthamptoB Mass, May
- lisa amid the tribulatlons OF the Revolution While
al infant he nearly saocatd by being locked up In
one OF the folded bedsssads common IN those days
AtAossh NE was nears extinct when he was rsscued
from bis perisous condson he was saved at the expense
OF headache, which clung him for iife and which
ne earhnted TO thsscciden s reported OF him that
~ early youth he dstinguisheA Cor remarkable
scienaoHsaca and his mother tssk great pleasure in
stating IN after years when the boy had become man.
that thc never knew him 70 tell lie He was also
noted s the seriousness Of his character and called
an old snan BEFORE he was Of age
d B8GINNING BUSINESS. NJ
+ wnsn he'had attained his uaturity he entered into
parsuershlf and business with Henry E. sewsl ~
ohsef -Jmtice sewe, a Porssnd, Maine, and subsc.
qssnnys: Montreal Canada AZ the foymer place their
ssnssss embraced all bsauchosof the hardware tsade;
osta Montreal the Arn engaged largely in general
hpcsssng business This trase destroyed asa tho
swo'ascrchants forced lsao Canada On account Of
tasshs required oaa Of allsgiance 70 the British gov
on rhrsnt rsppan md sewsn Left Canads and removed
soUton, where the copSssnership dissolved, the
se<naor entering intoaaa business arrangement In
fsM with his brother Lewia BY ne terms
or lAis partnership Arthur Tappan becaae resident
or New York, whore sshe principal agency of the
90 abern established. This branch of she frnw~s
n own as Arthur TappGa Co. It svcnsaaily became
principal house. very succesruli exteSdng
N nd~r
4 that cauy ousof the industrious sssy
though quiet cad 'mosb Of NE early New York
hants HeenPloyed starge number a clerks forwose
uidascs in business asl morals he esbNahsd
L. Thstevs.y younsrnan shosld b. ss-sty temp. ra,e
ariI ikiag no ardent spirits OF any kind
2. Thst caesowas wit hosscs sRE fame iulge
ns ~ habits or staysat late.
Ne 'clsr& was permitted 70 visa tho sbssxe; 70
kp ov "a actor 30 crame-an aersss aAs unpardcnable
"A r. Each clerk shoul1 attend Divine service, tvsoe ON
senday and uas required 70 report ca tho fr owing
~ II name Of the church attended xhecergymsn on
hitting ana the text Of the sermon heard Moreover
they SA Asastssd prayer meetings twtcs week Every
0erk had 10 be hand half past ssyen IL, 50 miner
and eigln n winter and business was never over until
the days Esrk MAS anishea. Before cemmenniSs ~
duties 81 fbe day the CLERKS were ascmhlsd and say s
|
- fla Aas Hls PRcULIARITIHs.
Mr. rArpan had other peculisrtes in his suss ,e ..
He sold only foreash md always ~ csst prses- In
1920 the rm formed by himself and brother faisda pd
their prpnta capital and everything but their
were swept away On his credit Arthur TsPpan IN ru-
diatey ~s~n, purckS-nss ~~>rk,ms SIX
months' redt selling II Off for cash At price, and,
looking 10 the interes Of the money for his pront His
system wss augbed atthen and will doubtless beIaudAed
h.,ss MI
tons of money lenders being then comparatively SIN
known Arthur Tappan prospered, and for ssyen,ss a
years continued to carry his bus with muoh
cess until the storm of 1887 wrecked his bark
HIS POLITICAL TROUBLES.
In the meantime he had other troubles He had
early his opposition 70 the system Of slavery pre-
vailing In the soutL, and whenever an opportunity
offered denounced the laws which protected un,usta
and inhuman When abotonsm had neither heada
front body-was without. organization and appa
renty without purpose--when ts advocates wore !
laughed d harmless dreamers and Il had place
NOR likely 70 have place as con
trolling party n the national politics, Arthur
Tappan Was azm supporter and advocate Of the
idea" and preached IL whsnevsr opportunity
offered, uu ut last amid the excitement regarding sui
ncation In lSS3 hs made himself sobnoxious 70 many
pro-slavery advocases Of the city. he made himself
quite promneut abolitionis In 1a2D by the promy
ness with which he paid the nne Of housand doas
which he'd bssn sniesed against william Lloyd Gsrnsos
IN one Of the Bostsa courts for utteHC "gross and
Malicious Ieei" Announcing Francis Todd, the owner
master OF the slave ship Francia atsubsequcntiy
appeared thst in this act Mr. TAppan had anticipated
Henry Clay Daniel Webster and the Manamson Society
Of North Carolina each Of whom had aisedse amount
neceesary 70 lberate the editor Of the LtbsrsSr hen
published a. the .senas of Universal Emsncipaton +"
In 1927 Mr. Tappsu, In oannecton with David aale and
other original aboltionists stared the Journal f Com
auhboition organ, procuring, curiousy enough
heir chief editorial writer from Norfolk Virginia This
sentleman named Maxwell 10 whom salary sf Hve
thausand dollars paid Ter the year dusag
whoh he remained the paper Lewis Tappsa
succeeded Maxwell editor Arthur Tappan gave the
sum Of thirty thousand dollars the paper ha
only coalitions being that Should be strictly moral
excluding oil theatrical and similar Advertisements The
money was sunk" the first yeas me paper It's
commencement published in the same inconvcnient |
shape which has In after years tic Journal and
CoSrier AND Enquirer retaining this form. were called
by the HERALD, then penny psper the vet blanket
sheets Of Wall street." He also aided In founding the
American Tract Society and prominently conpected
with the American Colonization Society, but deserted II
when he discovered that It's agents not only export
ing freedmen fermented liquors TO Africa and joined
the Abolition sesy % ns1G' a4 wS
caIy than ever TO the work of destroying slavery But
these abors although performed with the quiet energy
OF determined man. could not fail 10 make him noor
ous; and hence when the Abolition rios'' Of July,
1894 began this city Of the first cries OF the mob
was away to Arthur Tappans"
.s THE RIOTS OF 1884.
II IN singular that the riots Of 1884 and tho moro
terrible riots Of 1888 began the day OF the
month"; originally directed melted tho
negroes The former originated at the Chatham street
chapel then standing the west side Of Chatham, be-
tween Pearl and Duane streets now occupied by "od
co' men, and others II had formerly been known as
the Chatham Street theatre but through the money Of
the Tappaps Il became converted into chapel Arthur
and Lewis Tappan chiefs OF the chapel Phinney
and Burchard great sensation and abolition preachers Of
the day. the principal clergymen who held forth
there Occasionally the chapel was leased TO different
religious societies One OF Them the New York Sacred
Music Society Of which Justice Lowndcs then police
Judge, and Dr Rockwell, afterwards, we believe, quar-
antine officer respectively President and Vice
had loac nv vxhi mi lad IN