The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1838-10-24
From the New York Evening Post.

'"' " io"s ailiCie complaining bitterly
:" the losses sustained by the whig party
'e betting on the recent state elections. 1
u stead however of blaming the folly and il
$, morality Of this species Of gambling, Il
~ Courier pours out a column of random ai
ne ridiculous abuse oft democratic party, {
the false assumption that the losers we
deceived and decoyed into losing their m,
;" ney by the treachery of the democrats.
The amount Of bets entered into in II
= course of the late State elections has bee
prodigious. No desperate garnester Mt Fra
q. scutl's, and the other houses Of PnrisIa
vice, or in the hells Of London, or in Ill
saloons of gambling at the German water
ing places, ever staked his whole means
: subsistence on the throw OF die more mad
y ly than many have staked theirs on III
o chance of these elections. The Philadel
. phin papers talk currently of million o
. dollars betted on these elections. The Cou
|rier i,solf, speaking of the receipt Of the frs
. intelligence from Pennsylvania, which was
= favorable TO the wings, relating as II did to
: the city OF Philadelphia and its neghbDr-
hood, makes the following admission:
I" II is calculated that between the time
the nccoruts were received here-one or
two o'clock in the morning and day light
at lenst eighty thousand dollars were bet
and lost in one hotel in this city"
We frequently hear the remark made,
b that numbers in this city must be utterly ru-
med by the large wagers they have laid Oh
the recent elections.
The truth is, that the same spirit Of mad
adventure, the neck -or-nothing spirit, the
disposition to hazard every thing in The hope
Of gaining much, which showed itself in
commercial aud land spcculaiohs three
years since, is now active in taking cnor-
nous risks on the chances Of this or tha,
political candidate.
The other day men gambled in new cor
porations, in fancy stocks, in fog lots, in Ii
thogruphc cities; now they gamble in cleo
lions. This is species of gambling the
more general and the more harmful, be-
cause It is not yet marked with that public
disapprobntion which it deserves. We say
deserves because aside from the folly of
the risk incurred, the misery it produces to
the loser, and the mischief it does in with
drawing mems minds from their regular
pursuits, it Introduces an element of cor
ruption INTO elections; it causes men To de-
sire the success or defeat of n candidate
from n sordid motive of personal interest,
and temp,s them, when they can, to pro-
mote or prejudice bis election hy disboGor-
able means.
Ii is perfectly true, ns The Courier COM
plains, that the wings have sustained enor-
nous losses by the extravngant wagers
which they have laid. That print has
doubtless particular and ineligible reason
for being pathetic on this point.
0ualis populea moersns philomela sub umbra
Amssos queltur fotus, quos durus arator
Obscrvans nido impumes detraxil, nj lila
Flet noctcm, ramoque scdens miserable carmen
Integral, ct moestis late loca fleiibus implct"
which the unlenrned reader will understand |
is the story of an unlurky bird who had lost
her young from her nest, and mourned all |
night about it. II il true thnt the wings
have had The worst of it in the hnZnrtls they
have run, bat they have only themselves to
thank Tor II, rs we shall show. The miscr-
able snbterfugc to which the Courier resorts
'f charging the consequences of its own fol-
Y on The opposite party, is rs old as the an
,as of gaming. When did the man who
'uined himself by gambling fail, in the in
ervals Of tearing his hair, to complain of
cheating and cogging, of loaded dice and
false cardsl IL is thing of course.
The truth is thnt the wings are s1ngunc,
confident, and bonstfnl by iemperament.--
They dclude cach other by proclaiming
their own eXtravagnnt expectations, and
making magnificent promises of victories
which they intend to achieve. They have
n great deal moro money to lose than the
democrats, they nro fond Of reinforcing their
assertions by wagcrs, they look upon bet
as an Argument, they offer large odds and
tempt their opponents in this manner To en-
gage risks which they would otherwise have
avoided. Here ia the secre, Of their foolish
temcrity and their enormous losses.
We have nn instance in point now before
us. To show how the whig papers are in
the practice Of humbuggiug their readers,
hlllng them with extravagant hopes, aud in
citing them To make extravagant bess, we
rcpuhllsh tho following paragraphs from the
New York American. They appeared in |
that print immediptely after the choice of
inspectors of elections in PENNSYLVANIA, and !
present curious contrast with the actual
result of the election
"PENNsY,yANn.-rbe returns are hich-
Ily hatlcrng to the wig cause. We have
no room for details, but the following para
graphs will tell the whole story. The Phil
adelPhia Inquirer says:
The news, take It all in all, is cra,ify-
ing IN the highest degree. The very des-
pera'ion of the enemy-tIe very necessity
imposed upon them of getting up fnbrica-
iions, aud giving currency to paIpable false
hoods, shows the melancholy nature of their
coalition. They are goue, hook and line
nothing can save them. They will not
only be looed, bu, Waterlooed. They know
1t, and hence their contentious. We say to
our friends here and elsewhere, be OF good