New-York daily tribune., 1859-02-14
TIE DELAWARE LOTTERY GRANT

The Methodist Protestant Church Of Townsend,
in the County of Newcastle, and STATE ofDelaware,
is church to get religion in. This is church in
which to cit, is to inhae sense of justice. To
breathe the atmosphere of this church, is In spite
of ones SELF TO absorb love and mercy. To walk
down the aisles of this church. is finished educa-
ton in mans duties to man. arrived at in one lesson.
The csndles of the Methodist Protestant Church
which is in Townsend were moved out Of their
place in January and shone in the lobby Of the Del
aware Senate. These holy Lights guided the feet
Of the legislators of that exemplary little common
wealth into vote for convenient lottery grant,
which was 10 give the church in Townsend $1,000,
N Iouleaus of thirty pieces Of silver each. The
facility with which Judas fObbed money, bloody
with treachery and the death of the innocent, was
net lost as an instruction to these pious mission
aries in the Delaware lobby. They were open to
the $4,000, come as il might, through the common
sewer of grant, or direct bribe from an unre-
lenting speculatOr in human follies and passions.
They wanted the money to build a church in
which to worship God, and they prayed on their
knees in the lobby to be authorized BY law to
stand as sort of net with fine meshes, and inter-
cept at Wimirgt the poor offerings Of siIpences
heatbenshly made to Fortune by ragged and despe.
rate negroes-there to take shilling pieces from
ruired women, of whose entire spiritual and mate
rial estate Iethipg is left cave the gamblers hope
Of uck-tO catch the dirty current Of quarters and
halves stolen begged, borrowed, or saved to be in
saDely invested in lottery tickets by thieves, loaers
srl 1rur aYls nm frnm fhasp
apostles in the Delaware lobby. For the
take of their roulesus Of crime and sorrow
attained silver they besought the law makers of
their State to institute, in the neighborhood
OF their Church, monstrous improvement
upon oil known games with cards or dice-a
game at which the people of the whole Union can
play without leaving their homes, their business,
and their responsibilities Of fe-s game Of chance
in which tie protected gambler has not to touch
either pasteboard or ivory-a game for all, in
which talents and stupidity, rank and vulgariy,
experience and yerdancy, and wealth and poverty,
are on dead level Of equalty-s game without
coHpanionabp, whose solitary vice in the nursing
dark eats its sure way through and through the
sou Of the plsyer-a game that never ends, whose
excitements commence with the purchase of the
ticket, and are on steady food Of cheating hope
until the drawing Of " the scheme"-a game whose
silence and secresy are especially adapted to women
and children, debarred by circumstance from all
o.ter worship of Fortune-a game with which
cashiers and accountants eau mine out the capital
from urder ths feet of con6ding merchants, and
show their employers daily fair faces and fair
ledgers.
This Christian and ststeamanlike act Of legiala.
ton, thus prayed for by the saints Of the church
which is in Townsend was also implOred as an edu
cationa influence Of the highest value to the youth Of
Delaware, by the trustees Of the Academy at
FELTON,, in Kent County by the friends of
" the Academy in Concord, Sussex County"-by
the several committees Of eleven school districts
:" in Appequinimink Hundred 10 Newcastle
" County" Six different Railroad Companies
united their entresties to those Of the educators
and the saints. To these joined themselves in this
Lobby anxious-meetiDg, the directors Of four Navi
CATION Companies, and the tax payers Of an entire
county smitten with the ghastly fancy Of making
the gamblers of the North, South, East and West
build them a new Court House and jail.
Thus the jestful threat of Mordecai Mlnassah
Noah, to put the whole State of Delaware in his
breeches pocket has been moro than fulfilled by q
BAltimorean, upon whose limbs the large Jews
rair eut wocld Zap and loosely ct. RicbasdFralee