Morning Star

Advantages of being an Abolitionist—

Messrs. Tappan & Co. are among the precious few of the sufferers who will lose comparatively nothing by the recent calamitous fire. They were insured in Boston sufficient to cover their loss. The reason why they insured their property out of the city, was because the insurance companies here demanded of them an extra premium, in consequence of the excitement against them as abolitionists—fearing no doubt that some malicious individuals might fire their premises. For the same reason they procured window shutters to their store of thick boiler iron soon after the mobs of 1834. These shutters were not opened; and while the fire was raging by the side and rear of the building, rendering it almost an oven, a large party of blacks, who had turned out to assist them, continued to rescue their property. By these means more than $100,000 worth of goods were removed to a place of safety, and before the fire had yet done raging were placed in the store 25 Beaver street which Mr. Tappan now occupies. It is said that it was with difficulty that the negroes were restrained from rushing in after the flames had communicated to the upper stories.—N. Y. Sun.