Their success but whetted the appetite of the spirit of mischief for other ventures against the Abolitionists.

As a consequence New York was in a more or less disturbed state from the fourth to the ninth of the month.

The press of the city, with but a single exception (_The Evening Post_) meanwhile goaded the populace on by false and inflammatory representations touching the negroes and their friends, to the rioting which began in earnest on the evening of the ninth.

That night a mob attacked Lewis Tappan's house on Rose street, breaking in the door, smashing blinds and windows, and playing havoc generally with the furniture.

On the following evening the rioters assailed the store of Arthur Tappan, on Pearl street, demolishing almost every pane of glass in the front of the building.