Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-05-19

NoTING AT FAIRs.-Iu the minds OF
some Of our good people there exists a
strong conscientious repugnance TO the
practice Of voting away presents TO
favorites at religious and benevolent fairs
SO common OF late years and not a few
have been so exercised upon the subject,
desiring 70 DO all in their power for the
/ object whose interest is to 5e promoted,
and at the same time r~eligiOusly opposed
70 anything savoring the least Of chance,
in the offensive sense of that word, that
they have soughtlight from every source,
sometimes determined 10 oppose and
again half satisfied they we're
under the influence Of pruriency
rather than Of an enlightened con-
science, have found themselves in
much perplexity, what curse to pursue.
It is difficult to diyest anyfransaction in
life of a real or constructive ain Of
chance. When YOU insure your life 1t
may be said you bet the premium paid
against the policy that you viii die by q
certain day named.
The merchant or trader why buys, bets
in favor of tde chances o. profit. II a
man marries a wife, he bets his c0ndi-
ton, be it good or bad, against what it
will be, after the contamination, that he
will be doing q good thing. He may via,
or alas he may lose. The chances are,
we are free TO believe, in favor Of his
winning II he only reasonably behaves
himself.
So it is with the farmer who
bets his labor ia favor Of a good
crop. and all through the ordinary
affairs OF life il will be found the same.
In a certain sense, every candidate for
Office, whether IL be for govOrner or for
elder or vestryman, bets his time and
labor and influence and exertion, both Of
himself and his friends, that more peO-
pie will express a preference for him than
for his opponents, but did anybody ever
sag be was therefore guilty Of immoral
practices
If you pay part OF the price OF an ar
iiele, and another person pays the other
part, and you throw dice to see who viii
get something for nothing, or for very
little that surely is hazard Ia the fuA
sense Of the wager term Of chance, for
you buy nothing with your money ex-
cept the privilege OF being placed IN q
situation TO be benefited upon somebody
else's money by the mere accidental
happening OF an uncomfortable chance.
Not 80 when you give your money at
the [" Funny ThuyStOH IQbieh al The
so Ah@1NI ANHs WIN q liz a&A ~
the privilege Of expressing s Partially
for one hotel over the Others of Menphis
in the question Of who shall have that
#" sparkling slcer set /" for the simple,
logical and ethical gleason that In this
latter case there is chance, the entire
results depending upon the doing or not
doing OF some particular, specified act,
namely the purchase by a sufficient
number Of persons Of the privilege
OF expressing q preference for this
or that hotel to make It al ascer-
tanned thing by actual calculation,
which hotel ia the city has the largest
number Of friends. Every vote cast Is so
much accomplished and c0unted-not as
the result OF ehRnce-but as the conse-
quenee Of a legitimate act.
Bishop Quintard, and other
excellent Christian gentlemen who have
been exerting themselves so earnestly Of
late to break up "piOus gambling,p
F" highfalutin,n "high. flying religion.u
/" butterfy-srisn godliness,n and ali sorts
OF scaudalOus "donDing the livery Of
heaven TO serve the Devil in" desires the
earnest thanks Of every sincere Chris
tan well-wisher OF a pure church and
an undehled religion.