The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-07-27

hand at half-pa eve in summer and
eight in winter, and business was never
over until the days work was finished
Before commencing the duties of the day
the clerks were assembled and prayers
offered up.
HIs IRREGULARITIES.
MI. Tappan had other peculiarities il
his business. He sold only for cash, snd
always at cost prices. In 1920 the firm
formed by himself and brother failed, and
their profits, capital and everything but
their credit we're swept away. On his ere
dit Arthur Tsppsn Immediately began
business again, purchasing a stock on siz
months credit, selling it off for cash al
cost price, and looking to the interest of the
money for his profit His system was
laughed at then, and will doubtless be
laughed At now; but the pitfalls of Wall
street and the tribulAtions of money lend
ers being then comparatively Ut known.
Arthur Tsppan prosPered, and for seven
teen years continued to carry on the bust.
ness with much success until the storm Of
1896 wrecked his bark.
BE ADVOCATES A-BOLITIONIsM.
He made himself quite prominent IS IN
abolitionist in 1929 by the promptness with
which he paid the fine of one thousand dol
lars which had been entered against Will
liam Lloyd Garrison in one of the Boston
courts, for uttering a "grOss and malicious
hbeP' in denouncing Francis Todd, the
owner and master of the slave ship Fran
els. It subsequently appeared that in this
act Mr.. Tappan had anticipated Henry
Clay, Daniel Webster and the MRnumis-
sion Society of North Carolina each of
whom had raised the amount necessary to
lberste the editor of the LibeTator, then
published IS the HGenius of Universal
Emancipation" In 1927 Mr.. Tsppan, in
connection with David Hale and other
original abolitionists, started the Journal
of Commerce as an abolition organ, prOcur-
ing, curiously enough, their chief editorial
FIsimnginf IRW HSQIfOlk, Virginia This gen.
salary of five thousand dollars was pafdAfof
the one year during which he remained on
the paper. Lewis Tsppan succeeded Max
we'll as editor. Arthur Tsppan gave the
sum OF thirty thousand dollars to start the
paper, his only condition being that il
EbUurd DBBLrTcTTy moral, excluding all the
atricsl and similar advertisements. The
money was sunk the first year. He also
aided in founding the American Tract So
ciety and was promently connected with
the American Colonization Society, but de-
serted it when he discovered that the
agents were not only exporting freedmen
but fermented liquors TO Africa, and Joined
the Abolition Society proper, joining hands
with Lundy, Lewis and Garrison, and de-
voting himself more practically than aver
to the work of destroying slavery. But
these lsbors, although performed with the
quiet energy of q determined man, could
not fail TO make him notorious; and hence,
when the HAbolition riots" of July 1884,
began in this city, one of the first cries of
the mob was 'swsy to Arthur Tappsn's."
THE RIOT OF 1884.
It is q singular fact thst the riots o fIs34
and the more terrible riots of 1868 began
the same month, and were originally di-
rected or melted against the negroes. The
former originated at the Chatham street
chapel, then standing on the west side of
Chatham, between Pearlsnd Duane streets,
now occupied by told clio men and 9TH
ers. 1t had formerly been known IS the
Chatham street theatre, but through the
money Of the Tsppans it became convert
ed into 8 chapel. Arthur aad Lewis Tap
pan were chiefs of the chapel; Phinney
and Burchard, great sensation and aboli-
ton preachers of the day, were the princi-
pal clergymen who held forth there. De-
casionalIy the chapel was leased to differ
ent religious societies. One of them. the
New York Sacred Music Society, of which
Justice LOwndes, then police judge, and
Dr.. Rockwell, afterwards, we believe, quar-.
shtine officer, were respectively President
and Vice President, had q lease by which
were entitled to use the buildine
every Monday and Thursday nights. On
he occasion of one of these meetings the
members of the society found the house In
he possession of large numbar OF De.
yroes, who pretended that they had hired
{, and who refused to retire. From words
.hs disputsnts osmo TO blows, snd the mn.
tical society were expelled by the negroes.
A crowd assembled and a fight took place
n the chapel, to the utter demolition of the
eats chandeliers, lights, Sc, and aJso of
eversl heads. The Tappsns were not
present; but Lewis Tappan, while passing
AID a6Gse, but no
arm done him The next evening, on the
amor that another abolition meeting was
be held IN the chapel, the mob again as
smbled before the chapel. The Haboli-
ionists" did not appear. MI. William v.
Wider held control of the mob for some
me, by detailing in an address to them
10 miseries of the slayegin st. Domingo 4:
ut it was bent on mischief. Some one
the crowd read Q handful denouncing
Ii. Farren, stage manager in the Bowary
leatre as an Englishmsn who had de-
Ounced America and Americans, and the
OBJ Immediately started for the Boverv
leatre, where Forrest was playing HMets-
ora for Farren's benefit. The mohgained
entrance, and, despite the entreaties
I'd demonstrates of Netamora, concluded
10 performance and play in q manner
sver intended by the author. The polics /
cared the thester, but left the mob to con-
hue its riOtous course, AMI it raised the
out "away to Arthur Tappan's." Arthur
appan lived in Rose street with his broth
Lewis. The house Bss broken open,
g windows smashed and the furniture ,
rown into the street. At this mouent
9 police charged and the rioters were dis ,
rsed, but returned soon after, reinforced
d armed, and drove the police of, built ,
and burned the furniture and bedding /
the house. The mob held possession Of 1
PORTION of the city for two days after, re- 7
iring the constant surveillance of the :
venth regiment Colonel Stevens. An /
ack was made on DR.. Oox's church, cor !
: Of Laight and Varick streets, and the !
llding was much damaged, though not q
The Mayor Cornelius W. f
w~rence) Issued his proclamation COM b
nding the peace. The Seventh regi- a
MT and other military bodies were sta !
ned at the Arsenal, City Hall and aba :
r." On the night of the llth an at I
K was made on Arthur TsPpsn1sstore, in P
arl street. but the mob being -apprised 3
It q number of armed citizens were sta :
led inside, contented themselves in
ling 3 few stones st the building. In .
the approaches to the place,
tice Lowndes and Alderman Labsgh, !