and that the
colored people who were free should be enlightened and educated.
He opened a Sunday-school for colored adults, which was
numerously attended, in West Broadway, New York, and with a few
others, devoted the most of the Sabbath to their teaching. When
he and his brother Arthur, assembled the seventy anti-slavery
agents, who were thereafter, like "firebrands," scattered all
over the land, they held their meetings in this room. These
agents were entertained by abolitionists in the city, and many
of us had two or three of them in each of our families for a
couple of weeks. They went out all over the land, and were
instrumental in diffusing more truth, perhaps, about the
dreadful system of American Slavery, than was accomplished in
any other way. He also aided in establishing several
periodicals, brimful of anti-slavery truth; among which, were
the "_Anti-Slavery Record_," the "_Emancipator_," the "_Slave's
Friend;_" the latter, to indoctrinate the children in
Anti-slavery. The American Missionary Society, originally begun
for the support of a mission in Africa, on the occasion of the
return of the Amistad captors to their native land, and now
doing so much for the freedmen of the South, was almost entirely
established by his efforts. During the continuance of Slavery,
much was done by this Society for the diffusion of an
anti-slavery gospel.

The "Vigilance Committee," for aiding and befriending fugitives,
of which I was treasurer for many years, had no better or warmer
friend than he. He was almost always at their meetings, which
were known only to "the elect," for we dared not hold them too
publicly, as we almost always had some of the travelers toward
the "north star" present, whose masters or their agents were
frequently in the city, in hot pursuit. At first, we sent them
to Canada, but after a while, sent them only to Syracuse, and
the centre of the State.

In 1834, I think, was the first rioting, the sacking of Mr.
Tappan's house, in Rose Street. The mob brought all his
furniture out, and piling it up in the street, set it on fire.
The family were absent at the time. Soon after, they stoned Rev.
Mr. Ludlow's, and Dr. Cox's church, and the house of the latter.
They threatened Arthur Tappan & Co's, store, in Pearl Street,
but hearing that there were a