Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1827-02-02

numerous schemes for using money by that mode,
which pressed the attention Of the public.
OF the principle involved i'm this perncions system, IL
Is not my intention TO say word My purpose IS solely
10 obtain fom those skilled in the ways and dongs OF
Lotteries, information the follow ing points,
LIST. Wbe,hcri he competent for contractors TO raise
te price of tickets above that stated IN the agreement
with the commissioners named i'll Tie law comforting
the priv cge 10 raise money by lottery.
2diy. Whether i: is considered fair dealing for ma
nsgers in publishing their scheme To omit fact in
such scheme important, TO be known to wit the num-
her OF tickets intended TO be sold
The first query has been suggested by reading the
scheme of lottery advertised by J. Is. Yates g. a.
Mcintyre TO be drawn the 18th of February, and
designated as "the fifth class :f tie Virginia State
Lottery, for the benefit of the Dismal Swamp Canal
Company" by which il appears the contract price IS it'll
the commissioners stated AT dollars per ticket but
those who have undertaken the job of raising the a.
mount TO be levied fos the benefit of the aforesaid COM
pany have advanced the price 5 dollars.
have assumed matter OF Justice to the com
missiuners under the law, that in the discharge of their
daty, no lottery has been, is TO be drawn which
they are named to supcrnend for The protection Of The
Pu'!c, without having been submitted 10, and received
their approval.
The scheme referred to- contains 81, 900 tick
os, at presurnc) the contract price of Sl-producing
< $3.50. IS per cent. thereon, gives S9I25-the
Contract amount 10 be raised by the 5h class of .s
Dismal Swamp Lottery. But the contractors Yates
& Mcintyre, have advanced the tickets from TO g.
producing by such advance S3l,e20, making an ag.
gregae amount proposed be raised by the 5th class
aonc, of $685. How much of this enormous sum
go TO the credit OF the object patronized by the
law-and whittier goes the baIance' Does it go to en-
courage hushandry, manufactures? Does il give
employment, the industrious? Does the hun
Gyo Does il give motion 20 labor i'm any possible
sAape' Does The mechanic receive sixpence there
OF: Or does not such unceasing and enormous lev
have effect TO check industry? When money is
scarce, who is most pnched, f,e whose labor is
his fortune, and whose hard earned pittance yet
be lessened, the plea oil the scarcity of money! or
til auent, whose supe, utes evep are cut off by
any dimnution of the circulating medium? What are
the moral tendencies of this system? Out of many
viii state but unavoidable discourGgcneent to every
who compares the burthens of the laboiinc con
dOn Of life, with the splendid fortunes Lottery lob
bers, accumulated in incidence. Without riskinp
cent OF copial-whout The exercise of single pro-
Scrty from which good adJuccd TO sociev-a dealer
in Lottery tickets make money in one wear
Than any farmer or mechanic in Virginia can do at
the close of long life OF labor perseverance, aud in
dnstry. The more the Lottery system extended the
marked the contrast in the relations Of e TO
the advantage of the who sells pieces of paper
numbered from to 100 900, and against the man
whose livelihood is obtained by the laborous process
of making wheat. But the former diininishes the
wealth of State by withd a'ving its circulating me.
dunn, and parayzing labor-whilst the latter 1.-THE
irming interesO increases it.
Admitting that money is seat abroad 10 purchase
Lottery tickets if Lotteries permitted at home
tire argument implies that is dsbursed without
the State, equal to that expended within, when the
ticket is of domestic origin. Wherefore then have "
nlices opened among by citizens of o.er States
whose establishments in New York Philadelphia,
should equally patroniZe if we had no Lotteries in
Virginia. When sieve holds water, this argument of
sending money abroad for Lottery tickets will be
good If it were however, there is as much diff
ference in the consequences society between Lotto
RES the State, and those drawn without its limits
although the amount advertised liz either DE the same
there is between waged in the heart Of coun-
Try, and that prosecuted beyond lis confines.
But to recur 10 the second query-I have seen some
schemes advertised in which the number of prizes and
the price of tickets stated, bat The number of
tickets comprehended in the scheme was Opaiited-
This omission may have been unineHtional, but tie
public has right TO be protected (as far a sta e,ne
ofthe fact may be PLEDGE from the abuse OF which
an increase of tickets would be productive by giving
10 the contractors greater chance TO draw the prizes
than the Adventures Themselves would possess.