Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1829-12-08

them countenance by taxing them, met with
strong opposition, and was put down by an
overwhelming vote. 1t is too late to take a
backward step in this business and get in
the rear of honest publick opinion. We
should rather hold the ground we have Ia
ken, and set our face asa flint against the
petition; and the voice of the community
will sanction the course.
If no other course remains, let the State
assume the building of the monument, and
complete it according to the design.
From the Boston Daily Advertiser.
Mr.. HALE.-With the deepest regret
observe this morning the Report and Re-
solves adopted at special meeting of the
Directors ofthe Bunker Hill Monument As
ISOLATION on Saturday last. To raise ffiy
thousand dollars by a Lottery would, if we
may judge by the experience of the Ply
mouth Beach Lottery-which assuredly was
granted for no less valuable an object, and
of course interested the affections of the
community as deeply-require twenty years
to be devoted to this worst species Of gam
ing. 1t would probably lick up in the sale
Of tickets too millions Of collars. three quar-
tiers of which would come out Of the pock-
cts of those who can with difficulty pay
their other taxes. The expenses of collect
ing the fifty thousand would probably be a
hundred thousand. The thefts and forge
ries, or other frauds, naturally arising from
such business, would be the means Of an
nually sending six or eight persons, who
would not otherwise fall under temptation,
to tenant the State Prison. But it is need
less to enlarge on the evils of such an ex-
pertinent on the credulity of our. publick,
which feel confident will never be sane
toned by the Legislature. The day of lot
teries is gone by. Massachusetts first came
to the assertion of true principles the DELHI
crate wisdom of the British Parliament, tho
all the fat steam from. this fountain Of cor
ruption passed into the national treasury,
has sanctioned our judgment. In the State
ofNew York the tardy prudence of their
is at length satisfied of the poll
cy of forbidding the farther employment of
this mechanism of fraud and the evil has
been already sufficient, believe, in Con-
necticut, to lead to similar result.
This proposal of the Directors is the more
to be regretted, because it will postpone the
rising of the public sympathy in favour of
this admirable monument. Yet we had bet
ter wait the return Of prosperity five years
and who does not expect with perfect conf
dence refux of better times in half of five |
years ?-than disgrace ourselves by resort
to such miserable expedient. 1t has been
often said that the obelisk would be finished
within one year after general revival Of
active business and poor as am, ten. dol
lars year shall be pledged for five years to
the completion, rather than we should have
it thrown in our teeth, as is done at Balti-
more, the beauty Of your public works is de-
formed by the low means employed to raise
Them. As member of the Association,
have preserved with pride my certificate,
signed by names of men, majority of whom
would prefer that the work should never be !
finished, than in moment of dependency
be completed by measure that will be re-
long as the obelsk shall stand,
TO our disgrace.
The Committee called to meet tomorrow
will, ] hope, decline the undertaking, in
which they must fail of success and by so
doing enlist a strong resolution in the COM |
nunity to perfect the design in manner as
honorable to the present age as the servi-
:es of the 18th June, 1775, were to that day. (
Will not thousand persons unite in my pro-
posed subscription? Will not ten thousand !
feel the shame forever of having begged the
General Court for lottery? Ifthe disgrace
IS consummated by such grant to the As
| shall burn the parchment, in
which it is certified that am
A MEMBER.
Tuesday, lst Dec.