Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-02-15
MORNING, FEBRUARY Is, 1862.

~~A-NAa' people love SO wei az 10 lake
der tie care and fostering protection of the goyeme
i'Tcommended to be received into the arms ef vhti
MA An-1akers, and the morsl mercury OF Virginia q
SINK at once to the refzirg point is in godess sud
immoral Ffancs. What lover Of this young county, sii
does not feel his blood sir and hs very hesrstrg
tremble, at so DsiGriors proposal!
said, In a former communication, that German,
wtere gambling Is lesslzed, Ia also Is n6iel count,
as any nation, within the limits Of ChIisendom could
be. Ard such is the cAse iaE opening gaming heu..
es would come foul with the apours Of G. rnsn mcra
and German if iey. What reader Of the literature
the d'y doubts that Gsrmauy al this the source
and fountain OF large share, only OF tie iely
OF Europe, but Of the world. The 0teectua leaders
the fidelity Of the Continent and Of England Grs Gr-
mans 10 mention no others, Slraus toe Coryrh,a ci
modern inhd,lity, IL German Tho nfd,ls OF all the
civil ed werld have their minds imp sgnated with the
ideas and spirit OF straus add his German ooopperaos
and sympatbiz 70. The IL fidelity Of many Gsiman d.
vinrs, even s proverbsl with all theological &C loars
this country, and throughout Ohristendom. The e ct
their Efforts have hse and tue reeuts Of the exer,ionf
Ofitiels outside the Church. evident in the morale
Of the shoals Of iel Germans who have for years beer
lhting the shores OF this continent. and like The f.
mahecr vi pubIiu Whbntu on
Aedte, raneAn coasts, spreading psstlsnce and dealt
have terdfd go powerfully to generate and cor.
rupt Northern society, and to put in It, especial
y in the Northwest, so many elements of dsssse ard
cial rotsnness The soealistic Il fidelity OF tho G..
Of the Northwestern States CT the Old Un'on,
about as well known IS any fict about them. Thtii
newspapers nearly all Of this csst. They have no
S4bbath no B.be, no God. The blssphemous rants o
Carl ShuIz, in the pslitical cinyiss OF 1850,
yet reuse the horror Of the rejecting men Ct the
land and serve to remind the people Of the coun
try that the nation which produced him. has given birth
TO thousands Ike Carl Shurz and has infdey oueh
within It's Limits 10 leaVen world, II II were no. for
experimenting Pcovidence TO preven. go dire rcsull
B shop Potter in the work, have mentioned page
dftytwo quotes declaration Of one OF the most pr)m
cent ministers in Germany, 10 the prei!e efec. OF the
statements bave made. He represents Dr. Wieh
ern, decarirg public missionary meeting 10 Ger.
many, that the friends OF tho be had ell the scci
art, and literature Of the Empire against them TIE
Bishop thinks this eIsggeration, but says at The
time, that il is accurate that il "iruiy
appalling" Other evidence of the truth Of my aver.
msni this SUBJECT .ir, might be adducej, bat sp4.c
S no; allow, nor do pre7ume II to be Necessary T.
lSt Is siouOWaUN 50. Inc lunJtls OF Neinauy are q
ev in uumber but Iter name is legion Ike that ni H.,
devils OF antiquity and Their hgIence il tcIrc,lg ez
perucious. Aye, cir II No had been informed that
the 81 cen legion Of lost spirits hsd into the herd
D! mSny swine, hiuk il nigh; have been ssgsiy oon-
c,uFej that ihty had entered into the myrads u Ger
man reetbnkers CT these dpys; fer caIcely apytirf
Else could explain their mu;tuiiuous rush into the ds
eea Of inf iety. These stern facts will hardly b. cor.
iC2yelsesl hy Qry ore sho values hb repus;ion a.
m,uy, ;hat 10 mlst would have ns ~ lor mOs
SlB asd for arss. The ~ of God yang Germany,
he sr' Ct Of gambling .rc tn be brought across E
sea- 6rd planted in ,he 1fl bgstm Of the neE bonn ft.
public practice which G majority of the s,s6s o
the Corlcdsracy nov aoemlls decsre 10 BE- wee @.
no common ba5snes- tJ b. ipyed Oft tlat black robe
by fo'ua legal erarlnent i to be adorned viiL "a
nenls OF purity and Easncss aad Virginia, the mo.lcI
Of Statesmen aud laSgse bs the rst pay hon.
r TO the long neglected virtue of ibis sooi4 monster
Virgirir il a,tusly take s 'ediin iaa;irg Geula.
n.y. 10 the matter o! legaii1ng gambling. b, nay Q.
diminishing the vice are to ruae' ia ou2 land tie
avs OF eountry, Where gaming 10 its revolt NJ
firms, confessedy aud VIGOROUSLY prevails to sn cx
tent unprecedented il auy other nation und heaven
The men, sir who dsre this thug (,ud they ars no,
leW) should re ire to their gambling derg in rejdeuiuC
shame and confusion OF f,ce, for the lsii OF heaTeu
Is polluted by shining on ber impure count, t,nances
Every person who goes much n:o the world hears gam
berg expressing their pi.k's that the practice Should tc
legaizsd, bat when such proposals mlde through
he press, the scorn OF indignant peof, mould
tured a them, aui the authors Of such LlIns, WhetG
they designing m.n ignorant men, should b,
made TO feel the scourge Of the public wrath 10 all
bitterness.
L,! public opinion, SIR be organized and concen
lra.ed the suhjsc. OF this vice. PuOc sentiment in
Aqg'oSa1on Chrstentom has pat end to female gam
bling, as general thing aud il ia confessed that even
IN Germany, where gambling. houses licensed the lc
males Of tho country have been lately told rarely
game; that gambling among women is mostly COT l,d
to females from Eoglaud, the lrcquenters OF West End
and Grosvenor So isre, who receive countenance at
home and therefore resort to the numerous 'pss OF
Germany where they can indulge their passion wthou
restraint II tho low moral sentiment OF Germany, eve
csa prevent female gambling eS,iuRuish it when a.
rsldy existing, (though, perhHp' no evite'c, can b
found OF its prevalence there a eyi9 il pub!
opNion can DO this much aglins, female gaming WHY
It not do great things against gambling among ntn
Lst this opinion tske its keenes edge in this thing
LIT bers and mothers their sons, much, in re-
gard to this vice, they do in reference TO tse ntoi
oltng cup Let the various classes Of professional men
use their respective engines OF power, to their utmost
clpacity against it, Ltannthemas which have hitherto
sept, awake from their slumbers and break over this
crime Let them ssus from the bar and from the benc
from the chair of the professor, from the pulpit OF T.
preacher from the sane OF the editor aye, gnst
s,tesman opcs rfcommei ded let them come from the
mnque of the commanding general on the field of war
LIT the friends of Law and the common virtue u! their
voices aad compel hemsl lses to be hoard everyWtefe
on mater vitality interesting 10 ell, SO mary
cerning the public morality and hep2iress of oil. L.
hiI be done and stringent laws be arsyed osainst
this immortality cause them to be carried GU, ia tie
country wei! in the cy in villa veil in the
larger communities aud IN csnkerous ,xcescence o.