History of the South Congregational Church, New Haven: From Its Origin in 1852 Till January 1, 1865 (Classic Reprint)
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Thus, in one way or another, the projectors of the South Church enterprise met with discouragement at every step. The first idea was, to have a Mission Chapel, erected by subscription, and free to all. But on this basis there would be no revenue, and a con stant outlay would be required to support the minis ter and defray other necessary expenses.
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Gerard Hallock was an American publisher and journalist. He was editor and publisher of the New York Journal of Commerce, the first religious newspaper in New York City.
Background
Gerard Hallock was born on March 18, 1800, at Plainfield, Massachusetts, United States, the son of Margaret Allen and the Reverend Moses Hallock, for forty-five years pastor of a church at Plainfield, and for forty years a teacher there. FitzGreene Halleck and General H. W. Halleck were of the same family.
Education
At the age of fifteen, Gerard Hallock prepared for college in seven months and entered Williams College in 1815.
After being graduated with honors in the class of 1819, he studied at Andover.
Career
In 1821 Gerard Hallock opened a private school at Salem, where he taught Hebrew and German. With a loan of $300, secured from David Hale, Gerard Hallock began the publication on January 1, 1824, of a weekly newspaper, the Boston Telegraph, which devoted considerable space to religious subjects. In 1825 he became editor of the Telegraph and Recorder, a combination of his own paper with the Boston Recorder, one of the first religious weekly newspapers in the country, established by Nathaniel Willis and Sidney E. Morse on January 4, 1816. In 1826 he sold his half interest in this paper to join Sidney E. and Richard C. Morse as joint owner and editor of the New York Observer, started by the Morse brothers in 1820 as the first religious newspaper in New York City. He continued as editor of this paper until 1828, when he became editor of the New York Journal of Commerce. Early in 1829 he entered into an agreement with Lewis Tappan by which he and David Hale were to become, in two years, sole proprietors of the paper.
When the New York Journal of Commerce was established in 1827, it joined the Association of Morning Papers, a cooperative organization the members of which shared the annual cost of $2, 500 for maintaining rowboats to secure from incoming ships copies of foreign newspapers, which, before the success of the transatlantic cable in 1866, were the chief source of news from abroad. After the Journal of Commerce was admitted to the association, its rival, the Morning Courier, established the same year, withdrew and began its own news-boat service. To meet this competition, as well as to avoid accepting news gathered on Sunday, the Journal of Commerce obtained a pilot boat at a cost of $3, 000 and thereupon was expelled from the association. The three-cornered rivalry resulted by 1831 in the maintenance of six news boats at a cost of $25, 000 a year.
After the advent of the first popular penny papers, the Sun and the Herald, the competition increased until 1848, when a new cooperative organization, the Associated Press, was formed, with the Journal of Commerce as one of the six members. The following year the Harbor News Association was established and later, because the limited telegraph facilities made greater cooperation essential, the Telegraph and General News associations. Hallock seems to have been the president of all of these organizations, because, when in 1856 they were consolidated into the General News Association of the City of New York, the regulations adopted, which have been called “the Magna Charta of all Associated Presses, ” provided that he was to continue as president of the new association.
In assuming the editorship of the Journal of Commerce, Hallock stipulated that it should be “conducted according to the original principles upon which it was established, excluding Theatre, Lottery, and all immoral advertisements and notices, strictly observing the Christian Sabbath”. Nor did he permit his editorial policies to be affected by fear of loss of subscribers. As a result, the paper, together with three other daily papers in New York, was denounced in a grand-jury presentment in August 1861, for “encouraging rebels now in arms against the Federal Government, ” but action was postponed until the next session of the court. A few days later, the postmaster general of the United States issued an order excluding from the mails these four papers, because they were regarded as “dangerous from their disloyalty. ” Thereupon Hallock withdrew from the Journal of Commerce and retired to New Haven, Connecticut, where he died five years later.
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Politics
In politics Gerard Hallock stanchly supported the rights of the South in the fugitive-slave law controversy, opposed the election of Lincoln in 1860, after the election sought to avert war between the states, and as soon as hostilities had begun, urged measures of peace and conciliation.
Views
Quotations:
“I do not consult my subscription list to ascertain my principles. ”
Connections
On June 2, 1825, Gerard Hallock was married to his cousin, Eliza Allen.