New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-12-05

them is their life. blood do hope and believe that
something more can be done in the way OF Consti-
tutions reform 10 render honesty the practced pol
icy OF my native State Taking the bioe as our
standard OF right and wrong, and that moral sense
which our Maker has kindly given US 1t Is easy 10
prove that nine tenihs of the evils and wrons-dones
extan in the Stale of New York do not transgress
any conventional rule now in force. The eleventh
section Of the seventh article Of the Constitution,
prohibits the sale OF lottery tickets il this State
Why is this done Simply because il IS demoraIi-
zing 10 permit one person 10 acquire the money or
property OF another for nothing although the losing
party consents 10 psrr with IL Il all The legal gam
bling now prscticed IN the city and State Of New
York, strictly forbidden, in ike by the
new Constitution, how much crime, how much pau
perism and how much suffering would il moi pre-
vent There are still quite too many lotteries under
other names, for the public good. The chief among
these, Is that. which permits man 10 sell ticket
marked with the characters which stand for $1,000
and then allows him 10 draw the-sanle ticket back
again in one year, whether paper silver, gold or
iron with the addition OF one hundred hard day :
work at seventy cents day. Consider for mo-
nent the enormous bounty we offer for the COM
mission OF public and private robbery The man
that robbed Livingston & Co.'S Express OF S30,
0o0 al Rochester. Newfork. can let our this
stolen money agreeably 10 the laws OF New-Iork
80 that it will steal $4,000 more in l0E years; and
then the 600 of stolen money will steal 100000
more within % years from the time OF the first rob
berry Il was not much The tritie OF $50 coo that
this mans love OF money" crsved. Ii was the
three times thirty thousand dollars which that srm
would consttu;ionally and legally steal from the
productive industry of New-Iork, that prompted
him to take, without leave. the property OF others
The only way 10 check illegal theft is 10 abolish
all legal stealing. constitutional compac, that
authorizes one man TO take by force law, through
the hunger and other necessities of the poor, an an
al IN tba r,roiucfS uf
men, be prepared with It's jails and prisons, 10
punish al least one OF the ten laborng for
taking Tie fruits of others toll against law. Asyet,
the robberies agains; law are only about one-tenth
of the number OF those made agreeably 10 Its pro-
visions.
This inequality. however will grow less and
less till the sum taken Illegally will equal that I'M
Justly acquired through the forms OF law. In the
sweat OF thy face shalt thou eat bread. There can
be no enduring escape from this doom. Il will
most certainly be found that, if God has not given
ri enough 10 the majority 10 keep their own he has
favored them with strength enough 10 retake their
own. After all our trials il will be found utterly
impossible TO give TO one half Of the community
sum equal 10 the product of three hands 10 one per
son. and not compel the other molety 10 limit all
their food, raiment, houses and other comforts, TO
the average half allorance of what one hand pro-
duces for immortal being. There is that within
the latter class, derived from their Maker-a
seriousness of wrong, and of ability TO better their
condition-which never will be satisfied with any
thing short of all the good things called into exist
ence by their minds and their muscles. This must
be secured to them, or agrarian division of pro-
perry is inevitable sooner or later Ho,c this can
be done without infringing the property, or just
rights of any one, with your permission, Will at
tempt to show in another letter. SENEX.
H. GREELEY, ESQ: Dear Sri wrote the enclosed
communication, as you will see for the C. & E. In
late No that paper there epthets applied your
Correspondent Senex,' which induce to alter the
direction to your Office The koo which the Courier
asks for will be attended in due The origin,
nature and final issue of the malady should be well
sdered before remedy ia proposed SENEx.