. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. f slavery he was always wise, patient, andconservative. There was in his attitude and deliver-ances none of the fanaticism of the extreme abolition-ist. In our ecclesiastical assemblies he always coun-selled moderation. This was from no half-hearted sym-pathy with the black man, for the colored people weredevoted to him. They came to him constantly forcounsel, for protection, for help; and he never turnedthem away. He longed for their emancipation fromslavery. He counselled with Hen
. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. f slavery he was always wise, patient, andconservative. There was in his attitude and deliver-ances none of the fanaticism of the extreme abolition-ist. In our ecclesiastical assemblies he always coun-selled moderation. This was from no half-hearted sym-pathy with the black man, for the colored people weredevoted to him. They came to him constantly forcounsel, for protection, for help; and he never turnedthem away. He longed for their emancipation fromslavery. He counselled with Henry Clay and others oflike character upon this great subject. He visited theSouth, and sought to know the true condition and spiritof her people. Up to the time of the Civil War, hisposition was in favor of some method of gradual eman-cipation. But from the attacks upon Fort Sumter until the sur-render of Lee he never wavered in the position thatthe appeal to arms must be met, that the rebellion mustbe subdued, that the American Union must be pre- UPPER WEST HALLWAYShowing Tablet to the dead of the Civil War. %% \V* -^S T*% fit r!: ^fc^>V. As. \Vt \U lis
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