New-York daily tribune., 1859-02-14
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has fObbfd little UehxAe, ohc ro "'-' "NP ~ -
~, fob for twenty lcrg year,. During the iass
sss,e canvass, BY some persussions, which ne csa
probssly describe, tie candidates OF oo.h poi''cA
partes II, Sussex County were Pleeged 70 Vo,e 'o'
his Lottery Z rant, The election through the o'a"
r..ursaS 10 ,bs Legislature twelve members known
70 be favorable TO the yil'aiuous scheme and
eighteen supposed to Be opposed 70 it. Ihe Peo-
pc OF tie lower portion Of Kect were generally In
clined to the measure Tie legiNlason upon IL was
initiated. To the surprise of people who did not
know the power OF lobby, the member from the
uppe r part of Kent avowed himself in favor OF the
giant to Richard France, provided water course,
dear TO his seul, Duck Creek, could receive from
the aysls of lottery tickets $4,000 for cleaning
the mud out Of its channel Duck Creek
was put in the bill. The vote of the
House was still against it. Tie bill experienced a
reinforcement, ominous Of defeat, by large ma-
ority. Then the schemers, taught By the failures
of seven successive Winters, took their money In
their hands as weapons of conquest, and BY inter
estipg elk different railroads in the passage of the
bill to the extent of $3.50, 900 in the aggregate, and
four different navigation companies to the extent
of 1916, 600, and fourteen academies, schools and
churches to the extent of S54,0OO-snt by Sc
curing the personal presence at the capital OF
borers accomplished in the arts of hospitality, and
learned in the legislative persuasions OF Pennsyl-
vapia and Maryland, and abundantly supplied with
ueans-go. so full! equal TO a coup dtiat that they
introduced new bill one short January afternoon,
- Ana Nf an hnu- nd
passed il through the House BY a majority of tSo
votes. The missionaries from the Church Of
Townsend shed tears of gratitude.
Three members Of tie House, who had been Sc
cretly prevailed upon to support the measure were
in so unsettled state by reason of their con-
sciences, their selrespect, or their constituents
that that hot haste was deemed necessary. AT the
morning session, after the deed, one Of the three
penitentially moved reconsideration and changed
his vote But the Lottery majority was as yet In
eyitable The bill went Immediately to the SEN
ate, where a majority of one was already prepared
for it, No amendments were allowed there; for
that would have sent the bill back to the House
for concurrence, where another member, who had
tardily repened, was impatient to get at it to kill
it with his single vote. Wise choice of Legs'a.
tature and of State, oh ye lottery gamblers OF Bal
timore! The Governor of Delaware cannot veto
an act passed by the Legislature unless he is
especially authorized to do SO bya subsequent stat
ute. S, for twenty years to come, have Richard
France and bis associates the baleful privilege Of
flooding not only Delaware but all the Unied
States with the crime ard wo iaseparable from the
vice of gambling in Lottery tckets.
The minority of the Delaware House was limited
in their just horror of this act of Legislation to
protest vainly sought to be got on its Journal in
which they say that never before in the history of
the State was its parliamentary rule departed
from, which requires bill to be read on three
several days before its passage. The members of
the New. York Legislature are not thus restrained
Will they not, by new legislation, invite all the
agents, in any degree whatsoever, of the sale with
in our jurisdiction of the tickets under this new
Lottery Grant to hospitable entombment in the
prisons of Sing Sing, Auburn and Clinton We
earnestly urge them to do so.