The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1833-02-26
From the Bos. Paf.1
LOTTERIES.-In conseou,

from the Dos. Fat.
LOTT,ERIES-In consequence OF
the efforts by which the selling of lot
terry tickets of any kind IN the Common-
wealth has for many years past beeu
rendered illegal, and punishable by hea.
Wy pecuniary penalties, this traffick has
been carried on in this city upon a
much narrower scale than it is in New.
York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, and
IN manner which has concealed j,
from common observations. II is well
known, however, that the traffic has no,
been suppressed aud that within The las,
year or two it has been increasing
we will not undertake TO say whether
every proper effort has been made, until
qnne recently, to enforce the laws for
the ex:erminatisn Of this trade. Painful
events occur from time 10 time 10 exhib-
It in striking view it's pernicious con-
sequences. That alluded to in the fol-
lowing communication is one of the
most melancholy.
The recent sep-destruction Of Dir.
DAVID II. ACKERS, in this sity de-
mands more emphatic public notice
than 1t has yet received. The feelings
oi the community were perhaps never
more painfully, more Indignantly excl
ted, than they have been by this afflict-
ing event aud the remembrance of i,
must not he permitted to pass away
without giving such a stern and whole
some impulse to public sentiment, as will
effectualIy remove all fear of similar
occurrence, from n similar cause.
MIR. AcKERs, the misguided mar
whose unhappy fate been So generally
deplored had been, for ten years, the
chief Clerk in one Of the first importin.
houses in the city I; and to the hour o
l,'s death he enjoyed the unbounded con
fidence of his employers.
His character for integrity and puri
ty was unsullied. Modest and amiabl,
~ his manners, temperate and domes
tic in his habits, he was endeared to al
who knew him, as one without vice.
| When the distressing tidings wer,
first spread abroad, that he had bee,
found dead, not the most distant suspic
ION was entertained that he had ended
that he could have ended his quiet exis
'ence by his own act. The rumo
which momentarily prevailed, that h,
had been robbed and murdered, was re
coived, 1t is true, with horror, but will
implicit confidence nor was it unit
The fatal evidence of his rashness wa
found in his own hurried hand-wr,,in,
that they who had known, and love,
and trusted him so long, were made I,
feel that he had cruelty deceived them
' and that IN the distraction Of remorse h
had atoned for one crime by committin,
another the darkest crime of all.
But nO--he was murdered. Th
waves that ffoze over him as he plunge,
into their icy embrace, did not more sure
ly destroy him, than did the man who frs
enticed hin, from the quiet paths of dut
and peace, aud then drove him, to use hi
own dying words, "into the presence of HI
Maker to rcccive The dreadful sentence fo
sei:destructioa and aJuse7 confidence"
AcKERs was the victim Of fraternity
who to the disgrace Of our city nre pei
mitted tVcarry on their unlawful labnrs j
every street and alley, in bold defiance {
the penalties they deserve The sin {
his death Ii ,s in fact. at the door Of Vef
der of Lottery Tickets. The outrageou
extent to which he was duped will hardl
he credited. In the short space of be
tween seven md eight months, he em
bezzled the enormous sum Of EIGHTEe
THOUSAND DOLLARS, erery cent Of ,ohic
,cas lost in Lottery Tickets.
have no desire to excite mnmerifed i'll
will against any member Of the cominuni
ty; it is not my wish to draw down nndt
served odium upon any particular mode
whereby men gain their livelihood bu, o
n traffic which even permits such mon
strous fraud Us have mentioned, l shal
speak in no measured ierms-nnd ] hav'
mistaken the temper Of my fellow citizen
Il they arc not prepared to sustain me IL