Reminiscences of Richard Lathers; sixty years of a busy life in South Carolina, Massachusetts and New York; . sending outfast-sailing schooners to intercept the packets in order to se-cure the earliest news from Europe, and of getting the firstannouncements from Washington by means of relays ofhorses. His paper was the conservative mercantile and ship-ping organ of the city, and an advertising medium highly ap-preciated by the leading produce and shipping firms regardlessof their political affiliations. He was a firm Union man, and wrote and signed the callfor the Pine Street Meeting, and was,
Reminiscences of Richard Lathers; sixty years of a busy life in South Carolina, Massachusetts and New York; . sending outfast-sailing schooners to intercept the packets in order to se-cure the earliest news from Europe, and of getting the firstannouncements from Washington by means of relays ofhorses. His paper was the conservative mercantile and ship-ping organ of the city, and an advertising medium highly ap-preciated by the leading produce and shipping firms regardlessof their political affiliations. He was a firm Union man, and wrote and signed the callfor the Pine Street Meeting, and was, up to the time he wasdeprived of his paper, a liberal contributor in money and in-fluence to every Union movement. Like all conservative Unionmen, he regarded sectional controversy as disloyal, whetherindulged in by Abolitionists at the North or Secessionists atthe South. A stern defender of the rights of the South underthe Constitution, and as sternly against Secession and thefanaticism to which it led, he neither justified a rupture of theUnion by the South nor approved of the war spirit in the Gerard HallockReproduced from an old photograph. IN WAR TIME 227 He was a sincere friend of the colored race, as was attestedby his constant disbursement of money for their needy atthe North, and his gifts to the individual freedmen of theSouth who appealed to him. He was a fine exemplar of what was best in New EnglandPuritanism, being a devoted Deacon of one of the oldest Con-gregational churches of Connecticut, and not only a generoussupporter of that church, but a liberal dispenser of charitythroughout his city. He was one of the founders of the South-ern Aid Society when the American Home Alissionary Societywithdrew its support from slave-holding churches. I inserthere a letter sent by Mr. Hallock to his son, William H. Hal-lock, soon after he was hounded into giving up his tells its own story: New Haven, Nov. 22nd, 1862. To William H. Hallock, Esq. Dear Will
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