Shortly afterward the _Sun_ charged that the _Herald_ had had in its office a full set of Confederate colours, “ready to fling to the breeze of treason which it and the mayor hoped to raise in this city.” Later in the same year the _Sun_ accused the _Daily News_ and the _Staats-Zeitung_ of disloyalty, and intimated that the _Journal of Commerce_ and the _Express_ were not what they should be. The owner of the _Daily News_ was Ben Wood, a brother of Fernando Wood. In its youth the _News_ had been a newspaper of considerable distinction. It was an offshoot of the _Evening Post_, and one of its first editors was Parke Godwin, son-in-law of William Cullen Bryant. Another of its early editors was Samuel J. Tilden. Wood, who was a Kentuckian by birth, made the _News_ a Tammany organ and used it to get himself elected to Congress, where he served as a Representative from 1861 to 1865, constantly opposing the continuation of the war. The _Sun’s_ accusation of disloyalty against the _News_ was echoed in Washington, and for eighteen months, early in the war, the _News_ was suppressed. The _Staats-Zeitung_, also included in the _Sun’s_ suspicion, was then owned by Oswald Ottendorfer, who had come into possession of the great German daily in 1859, by his marriage to Mrs. Jacob Uhl, widow of the man who established it as a daily. Presence in the ranks of the copperhead journalists was disastrous to the owner of the _Journal of Commerce_, Gerard Hallock, who had been one of the great figures of American journalism for thirty years. In the decade before the war Hallock bought and liberated at least a hundred slaves, and paid for their transportation to Liberia; yet he was one of the most uncompromising supporters of a national proslavery policy. When the American Home Missionary Society withdrew its support from slave-holding churches in the South, Hallock was one of the founders of the Southern Aid Society, designed to take its place. In August, 1861, the _Journal of Commerce_ was one of several newspapers presented by the grand jury of the United States Circuit Court for “encouraging rebels now in arms against the Federal government, by expressing sympathy and agreement with them.” Hallock’s paper was forbidden the use of the mails. He sold his interest in the _Journal of Commerce_, retired from business, never wrote another line for publication, and died four years later. Another contemporary of the _Sun_ which suffered during the war was the _World_, then a very young paper. It had first appeared in June, 1860, as a highly moral daily sheet. Its express purpose was to give all the news that it thought the public _ought_ to have. This meant that it intended to exclude from its staid columns all thrilling police reports, slander suits, divorce cases, and details of murders. It refused to print theatrical advertising.