Unfortunately, the tone of the pro-slavery press continued so objectionable that on Aug. 22, 1861, the postoffice forbade mail transportation to the _Journal of Commerce_, _Day Book_, _Daily News_, _Freeman’s Journal_, and _Brooklyn Eagle_, all five of which had been presented by a Federal Grand Jury. The _Daily News_ was suppressed in New Jersey by the Federal Marshal. Gerard Hallock of the _Journal of Commerce_, complaining of threats of violence and an organized movement to cut off his subscribers and advertising, sold his interest to David Stone and Wm. C. Prime, and the paper became less offensive. The _Day Book_ permanently and the _Daily News_ temporarily ceased publication. The foreign-language press also failed to show due patriotism, many French citizens in August signing a petition for the suppression of the _Courrier des États Unis_ as disloyal, and the Westchester grand jury presenting the _Staats-Zeitung_ and _National-Zeitung_ as disseminators of treason. The _World_, changing hands, became under the able Manton Marble, who had recently been an employee of the _Post_, a leader of the “copperhead” press. There is no need to quote from the _World_, _Daily News_, and _Journal of Commerce_ to show how, boldly when they dared, covertly when they did not, they continued to attack the Union cause. Their methods were defined by the _Evening Post_ of May 20, 1863, in a “Recipe for a Democratic Paper,” which may be briefly summarized: (1) Magnify all rebel successes and minimize all Federal victories; if the South loses 18,000 men say 8,000 men, and if the North loses 11,000 say 21,000. (2) Calumniate all energetic generals like Sherman, Grant, and Rosecrans; call worthless leaders like Halleck and Pope the master generals of the age. (3) Whenever the Union suffers a reverse, declare that the nation is weary of this slow war; and ask how long this fratricidal conflict will be allowed to continue. (4) Expatiate upon the bankruptcies, high prices, stock jobbers, gouging profiteers and “shoddy men.” (5) Abuse Lincoln and the Cabinet in two ways: say they are weak, timid, vacillating, and incompetent; and that they are tyrannous, harsh, and despotic. (6) Protest vehemently against “nigger” brigadiers, and the atrocity of arming the slaves against their masters. (7) Don’t advise open resistance to the draft. But clamor against it in detail; suggest doubts of its constitutionality; denounce the $300 clause; say that it makes an odious distinction between rich and poor; and refer learnedly to the military autocracies of France and Prussia.