Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-01-29

tempting instruct the public before you capable Of
saying that which you want to say, is worthy only Of
your landed estate parallel aud logic your cock SPAR
row egotsm and vanity aud your Boteourt poiteness
and refinement and furnishes another evidence OF your
chronic superfeisity. You do only read supeTfci
ally that which Others write, but you read your ef
fusions in the way. Now this "a not only at
with true polteness and retirement at home, but is
tremey impolto, for II you will not treat your own of
spring with common respect, how can you expect the
world do It. Aud for all the cavalier treatment your
ongrel brood OF opinions and assertions Of the pater
nifty Of argument up to this time, believe you TO be
innocenp may hereafter receive, you viii doubtless be
indebted 10 "the power of your example," But
this sentence Ia Of your unfortunate progeny whom
suppose you do not care how much chGstise, for it
has deliberately lied on lis papa You say you told it
to say thing, and it says you told to say another
OF course the "povsr of example" bsing rresistable
am b,und to and do believe you Nov, sir allow 10
inform you that the females who gamble at Baden Ba.
den and elsewhere 10 Europe rarely the soft
blue eyed beauties Of the Teu,onc race but arc the
guy and fashion able and lis religious bellies and
danes Who at and futter through the salons in
West End and Grosvenor Square, which the wit Of
Addison orce irrada,ed. In my au:ion to the TALENT
and accomplishments Of certain gambler, did not pre-
tend to speak from personal knowledge. never saw
poor Prndle. did not know the graduate to whom
made alusion, and in speaking OF remarkably brilliant
cole qgist Of this city, distinctly said 81 told" such
resides here aud in abiding to the high position
other gamblers occupied for integrity in the confidence
Of honorable gentlemen here who know them, spoke
OF their regulations, and gave opinion of my Own
Yet superficial the glance you gave it. or careless
the susion you made to it, ha. you charge these opin
ions home upon me rs mine. Here sir, is Of your
own "posve statements which is entirly without ioun
dAiioR." II you think it amounts to "mantle, it is
yours, and the ~!athr is suggestive.
Already have been reluctantly compelled to make
more than alusiOn to Characteristic Of yours that
docs not only appear to be pre-sminenlly prominent
but constitutional TO wit, your vanity. Butt. was more
in sorrow than in anger" did it. With you it amounts
almost to a fansdcism. So vain YOU OF your erudi.
tion that for the sake OF opportunity 10 parade your
pedantry before the Of the Multitude You do not
hesitate to tummon witness TO the sand from the
nit OF Nj. ParHassus, and 10 confession that some
old gambler ace had swept his stakes away" comes
jingling from your tsamb'ing pen, quoted In musi
cal numbers. Then again, toward the close Of your
last article your antedluvan sllusoD snacks smlry OF
tie idea that you thought that that food had been got
up for your benefit than to cleanse the world of
its wickedness that you destined to realize
fame from crossing IT, than Sir James Cook did from hs
voysgs round the world and that by the dnt Of your
omnpotent genius you had identified yourself With II
thoroughly that scholr Of proper tiaemeut would
Aude to Il again In your presence as Noahs dood
but that henceorh and forever would be bound TO be
known as W. Ms food and designated in chronology
aud all the Encyclopedias. No doubt you have often
fanced of late that you ooEld distinctly hear resound
In through the lapse of centuries the Of its angry
surges as the lifted up their loud voices chant the
requiem Of the lost milons whose graves they roll
ed. Evidently, is your deliberate purpose to take
session OF and appropriate that l'od and Why ne. Ded
Gallon claims but his subsequent to yours, and
mus. have been rather a small iGr not deep enough
for you but k.l jasses your ambition and
Noah Died IN possession Of tho whole world it is not
right to claim for him that flood too.
The only evidence by which proved that there mus.
have been gambling before the food was what is tech
ncllIy termed presumptve," and anna sed at your
sbIupt and unconditional j,ctioa Of n for surely in
this controversy and doub; act elsewhere, you have
presumed enough yoursei have found ou. lorg ago
through your osiiags not oth.r~se, tha In presump
ton their certainly must be eviderc, OF somthg aeil
4 er reared Or polite.
| But why did ycG institute 30 pointed parallel between
Lord Erskue and myselfs sm bound to suspect that
it was because you know that you could not and hoped
| | would not survive the contrast But, thank Heaven,
~ still live" he pretend to be the peer Of the IL
lusrious British Lord but, il only had haG of your
fanaiieal vanity never sheGld Aape known net
/ lshn L. ton kan Ia
you ihougl; a5oat IT, But you have discovered sover.
egu p.nacsa for all the moral ills that gambling fesh ia
heir to- Iu the first place, your theory is without the
merit OF originality, and, moreover lacks another and
s:ill more mpoit,n merit to wit pFlctClty. In the
South il has sen long since az ,n aad again tried and
exploded and why There ia legal maxim which rurs,
'thc virtue of lay doea no; c0Esi5t mueh in tho
verify tho certainly of punishment and its truth hss
been a1robls exmplRod in all of the Southern Sta es,
where gambling has been made felony, but gambler
has ever b'el made feon. When you make a vice
which has hitherto ouy been misdsmeanor suddenly
sumo the huge proportions Of felony, the people cay
that you allowed them to ,come addicted TO e. mis-
dsmCanor and then want to put upon tEem for prac
tics OF Il the penalties Of e!ouJ this they say, has in
Il sypost f,s hood and morally t becomes dad let
ter, pros cuon under t. would furnish much strong
er evidence Of the mce than would OF the virtue OF
tie ntormer aud the t,cl OF it will dshonOr Il ii does
not dSat tho law, aud protect II 1t does hot provoke
aud abet culpds. When you irArldently cucumber a
law with harsher peaay than tho feelings Of the pub
lie will slneiGB you will thereby at once separate pub
lie sympathy from the law and ;wine tendery around
the plr,seu.sd criminal and this NUT inevitably enure TO
the permanent prejudice Of Law aai Osior by mauurirg
and watering the vigorous roots Of crime aad sending
them deeper n.O the esrh and causngs Upas foliage 10
flourish more'luxurllnhy above it,
0le CT the facts which in my six horse team and
which when presented to You, you attempted to rid
cule but dil no, dSTe to dony, was the weiklown IT,
tegri,y OF certain gamblers. Rdcus il powerful
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