New-York tribune., 1872-04-09

brayinQ tho thunders Of the Vatican, than when
that yOung man-with 10 advantages OF birth OF
culture with wounds still bleeding from his recent
encounter with the dark and bloody tyrant, IN his
dngy room of sixteen feet square, at once his sanc
tum. workshop, ard homemade assault upon
despofism which not only tramped millions OF slaves
in the dust but dominated the whole country DndinS
both church and state in chains and there forged ms
weapons of warfare from the materials
of Gods word and the Declaration OF lndependence.
Cowed and silent before the dominecrlng rover,
with the number of protestants growing FEWER ana
fcebler the very boldness and seeming audacity OF
the Young man in his attic telling the nation that
he was in earnest and would be heard aroused at
tontion. Tho yery elaboration with which he her.
aided and began tho assault, the stern defiance he
bade tho foe at whose feet he threw the gauntlet OF
mortal combat, made him the mark for criticism ana
hostile demonstration, as well as the ralymg pont
of those who sympathzed with him i'll splrlt ana IN
purpose. His impartialty, too, between sects ana
parties men and schools, constitutions and laws,
and whatever arrayed itself against the slave OF re-
mained neutral increased that attention and crlti-
cism His pen if possible. more severe, caustlc'
and exasperating than had b""0 his speech "hie
friends generally doubted questioned, and the
people condemned, the Shareholders were stung 10
madness"
The influence of tho brothers, Arthur and LOWS
Tappan, IN the early stages Of the Abolition move
ment is DESERT ol as follows: Arthur Iappah was
native OF Massachusetts,. He early became dis
tinOuished and successful merchant Of New-York.
An earnest Christian and plilanthrcpist his name
was associated with nearly every missionary and re-
for,natorv enterprise Of his day. Modest quiet, ana
unassumlng without much facility in the use OF
tongue or pcn his life will be remembered rather Us
one of deeds than words. Surrounded by ledgers
and invoices clerks, and customers, MS ear ana
hand were alike open to the Appeals lor
nersonol CHARITY the claims Of oppressed
race OF Of ruined world. Munifcent
rs unostentatious in his gifts, bis range of benev-
olcnce was wide and catholic. His brother, Lewis
Tappan though unlike him in many particulars,
was no less earnest and devoted to the cause OF re-
form and Christian berevolence. Like his brother,
with whom he was so long associated in trade and
benefcence. he was n man of remarkable business
capacty, great courage and large-hearted philan-
tbropy. Unlike him. he spoke and wrote with flu
ency. pungency, and vigOr. OF the many enter
prses with which he has been connected his rare YER
safilitv and energy have made him the life and soul
| He would says a fellOw-laborer, oversee their
immense mercantile business, 60 on Change, write
| two editorials, attend meeting Of the American
| Anti-Slavery Socety's Executive Committee, stop
into the noon prayer-meetng and pray deliver an
exhorta ad0n and wind up by sitting in the church
session, and addressing temperance meeting COM
posed of negroes in the evening all in the same day;
all the time would be in a hurry but never furried,
and would seem perfectly at homo in each of these
vocatons' He infused much of his own energy and
system into the new society, besides contributing
| largely to its funds"
OF Mr. Wendell Phillips and of Mr.. Edmund
Quincy, we have brief sketches, which we believe
viii be recognized as giving just impression OF the
| peculiar traits of those eminent antslavery re-
formers "By this brave and brilliant speech" tat
the Loveoy meeting in Faneuil HalD Mr. Phillips,
by one single bound, placed himself among the fore
most and most popular of American orators posi-
ton he has maintained by the increasing sutfrages
| of the nation. Then began that advocacy of human
rights which for more than generation lie contin-
ued with tireless and persistent ZEAL To it he con-
| secrated culture, learning, and that marvellous
eloquence on which the multitudes of a genera
ton hung with never-waning delight Fearless and
fierce in his denunciation Of the wrongs Of the op
pressed he was always merciless in his castigaton
of the opprossor and his abettors Confident. too,
| in his own plans and modes of action, he was per-
haps too apt to be critical, censoIious, and some
| times intolerant toward those who were equally
honest earnest, and unselish in their devotion to
the same cause to which his and their labors were
alike consecrated. But if some others were more
the platform and few surpassed him with the PEN"
Edmund Quincy like Mr.. Phillips, was then q
young Boston lawyer. He had become somewhat
interested in the discussions upon Slavery but as
vet had not fully committed himself to the anti
slavery cause. But this event solved all doubts,
removed all hesitaons and fixed his determination.
he came to that meeting to lay, an Offering his
talents and social position upon the altar Of
popular cause, dripping with the first fresh blood of
martyrdOm In this his first ant-slavery speech
he eloquently enunciated and vindicated the
fundamental principles Of the conflict, and referred
with much beauty and pathos, to the sublime idea
that throughout the vast extent of the free portions
of this continent the sons and daughters of New
England are gathered together, this the birthday
of their common mother, to pay due honor to the
memory of brother who has willingly laid
down his life in defense Of those principles
of liberty to which she owed her BIRTH His
labors then commenced, continued with unabated
activity until, by the adoption of the Thirteenth
Amendment, Slavery disappeared; when, with Mr..
Garrison, he retired from an organization which
that great consuumation seemed to them to render
no longer necessary. Mr.. Quincy had not the melli-
1uous, brilliant, and impressive eloquence OF Mr..
Phillips; but he brought to the conflict unrivaled
wit, polished and trenchant pen that had few
equals By voice and pen he rendered effective service
10 tno dnJlsldNeIy cause, lHOuBu OIten more cauS-
tic than charitable toward an opponent, and some
times apparently more anxious to make POINT than
to do strict justice to a co-laborer He
presented, too, with great cearness, the views of
that class Of reformers with whom he acted and was
among the ablest exponents of that type Of aboli-
tionism of which Mr.. Garrison was the recognized
leader. His reports while secretary of the Anti
Slavery Society, were models Of patient and exhaust
i've research of keen and brilliant rhetoric. Nor can