The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-12-10
The LOUISIANA STAT! LOTTERY.
A CARD FROM GENERALS BBAUREGARD
AND EARLY.
TO THE PUBLIC.

tho newspapers, a lotteries. md amOns
them the Louisiana State Lottery as fraudu
- lent, requires some notice ut our hands. W.
have not soon tho order, or n copy of II md un
. dofstand that tho agents and officials Of the
company In ihis city Nav Orleanst have beer
Z. refused such copy. but wD are Informed that
TIM order requires tit tetttrH aAreranA Ia any
OF the agents of tho Louisiana State Lottery ms
such to be STAMPED fraudulent, mud returned
to the wrlors thereof whom known or snnt to
the Deai Letter ONee whom tho writer's are not
known. A Il Ia we'll known that we a,Iperln-
tend tho drawings uf tho larger schemes of tho
Louisiana State Lottery which nke place eemi-
annually, We deem it au net Of imperative
duty to ourselves, "a wol ~ Of Justice 10 tho
Company with which we arc thus connected 10
puhsh this card
II the honorable Postmaster General means
to designate NIL lotteries as fraudulent uet Sc
without roforenoe 10 tho manner In which they
are conducted, we beg leave 10 remInd him of
the fact that lotteries have been authorized and
encouraged ut some time or other by all the
civilized nations Of The world that they are nj
this very time authorized and encouraged by
| several ef tho leajing nations Of Europe aud
/ that many Of the grandnst ediGees erected for
Christian worship. we'll ns some Of the
| nohlest institutions OF charity and learning In
!! Europe as " III as In America. have boon greatly
| indebted to lotteries for tho means Of their
| erection dBd establishment Without rotor
ring specially to tho example Of any other but
English apeaklng people. we will call the Hon
I, NJ. g. 9 attention to the faet that tho subject
Of lotteries ls referrnd to by Capt John Smith
IN bis History Of Virginia, which colony at tho |
time Of which he spenks, exfandad from tho
thirty fourth to Tho forty fifth degrees Of north
ern latitude, IN tho following quaint language.
A flor dasp NJ h,n n, ~ IL 4;
colony In the year 1914 he snys
The bnsinessa being brought 10 this parfpc-
ion, oaptatue dr0nH returned for Ehgitnd In I
inc hitter end Of juno. lGl4. Arriving In Ets
1'd. and bringing this good tihngs to the
G9unefli ani Company ny the assistance Of Sir
N"mas fIates: that Hleo had returned from I'v-
concluded, that to supply this good suecesse
with oil eEpedttion. the standing Lottery should
ne draWne with NIL deligent eonvenleney. and
thht pnsteIitY may romember upon occasion
70 use tho ike according to tho declaration | +
thtnke II not amisse 10 remomber thus much.
pnbhsiefbV He GpitpseH
II is apptsrent to the world by how rnanv
former PrH'lamatIons we manifested our In
tents 70 hapsd rawne out the great standing Lot
terry long before this which not falling out no
We desired. and others expf cted whose monies
are adyentured therein. we thought coed tbare-
lore for tho avoiding oil unjust aud sinister
eenstruettons. to resolve tho doubts of MI in
different minded. In three speeches points for
their better satisfaction.
|
S Was , running Lottery, ueNd long time In
saint i'an!s Church yard whore this stood, that
n y into he Treasury good snmmes Of
money dayly. though tho Lot was but small I
Then follows tho explanation Of fha '.th roo
special points, with q schedule Of prizes pretty
much after the plan Of lotteries Of the present
lay.
We believe that nearly If not quite all Of the
older States Of the Union authorized lotteries
u their earlier history. IT there wore any ex- a
'eptions. they were certainly not those States
which have been most noted for political and
personal morality. In several Of the States :
otteries continued TO be authorized by law IN !
o the beginning Of tho late civil war During
he administration Ct Mr.. Madison Congress 4
used IN net authorizing thu City of Washing
on TO havelotterles drawn for the Improvement
II TINT city and TINT net received tho sanction y
# tho eminent and pure statesman then at the V
lead of tho government. Some six or sever "
ases growing out of tho lotteres authorized by II
hat net. wont to tho Suuromo Court of tho :.
United States. when Chief Justice Marshall,
resided over It, and were decided 50 ns t9 u
firm tho vnldIty of contracts ma ie In refar. oI
nee to those lotteries. without thsre being an j.
animation from any quarter thai the Iotterlos 4,
ere immoral or fraudulent
Tho noted case of Cohon vs.. tho Common
ealth of Virginia. In which tho questions Of
le Jurisdiction Of tho Supreme Court and of
10 rights of the States were discussed with
lch marked ability Was lottery case CohoD
ngent for tho Washington lotteries Ind I'M
artaken to soil tickets In them In Virgjnla after
70 Legislature Of that State had pissed n law
the sale Of tickots within her limits
my lottery not authorized by her laws. Co
IN was convicted and flned under tho Virginia
W. and carried his case to tho Supreme Court
tho prnbFqiFipu thp at Of
Rs the supreme law of tho land and nG State
ud Interfere with it. After elaborate arRu
ont. the Supreme Court sustained It's iurIe- -
elton to boar tho ease, bat subsequently af-
med the jurisdiction Of the Virginia court
Don tho ground that tho act of Congress was n M
eal law confined In It's operation to the Dis
let Of Columbia. and that Virginia had exclu- -,
We control of lotteries Within her limits. y
ldgs Marshall delivered tho opinion Of the
urt, and there was no intimatiOn that lotteries
9re fraudulent. MI
The first act passed. In Virginia for tbs egtab- VI
hment of public schools. which was In the
rly part Of this century. provided for a sYsten II
lotteries to sustain them. which were re-
llred to DO drawn under the observation-disclosures Fr
the Governor, tho members Of the executive
uncll and the president Of the Court Of Ap- '
als. ~
La the tone Of public and private morals 80 far
pch exalted now above what 1t was Ia the nu
I'll, dorg ~ - .o,z,,t1t III 4 IL, - toy
- ~ - tiA2 'opupiio anu - ths tihleS q ha
mes Madison and John Marshall as 10 justify an
9 Postmaster General Of this day la denoun- OF
lg AZ fraudulent per Sc what received the A
notion Of our earliest and wIsest statesmen. N
d especially OF him who has been designated
> Father Of tho Constitution" and Of that H'1
10 and pure expoundsr Of II. who presided so
lg over the Supreme Court Of the United
itesf Can It b. that what WIS done 80 long ii
, church yard Of st, Pans Cathedral In Lon as
y, without question as to It's proprety IL 50
ossy immoral a5 to arouse all the plous sen
'tllties Of those exemplary communities,
o. In the language Of great English satirist:
Compound for sins they are inclined TO- ~
ny damning those they have no mind to-
I the Postmaster General means to declare Or
1t the Louisiana State Lottery is actually r