Lucretia B
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390 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Lucretia B’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Fairs for the founding of hospitals, schools, and churches conducted on the raffling system come under the same denomination.
Do not, therefore, associate gambling necessarily with any instrument or game or
Or time or place, or think the principle depends upon whether you play for a glass of wine or
Or one hundred shares in Camden and Amboy, whether you employ Pharaoh or billiards, Rondo and Kino, cards or bagatel, the very idea of the thing is dishonest, for it professes to bestow upon you a good for which you give no equivalent.
This crime is no newborn sprite.
But a haggard transgression that comes staggering down under a mantle of curses through many centuries, all nations, barbarous and civilized, have been addicted to it before eighteen thirty-eight.
The French government received revenue from gaming houses.
In fifteen sixty seven, England, for the improvement of her harbours, instituted a lottery to be held at the front door of St.
Paul's Cathedral.
Four hundred thousand tickets were sold at ten shillings each for
The British Museum and Westminster Bridge were partially built by similar procedures.
The ancient Germans would sometimes put up themselves and families as prizes and suffer themselves to be bound though stronger than the persons who won them.
But now the laws of the whole civilized world denounce the system.
Enactments have been passed, but only partially enforced.
The men interested in gaming houses wield such influence by their numbers and affluence that the judge, the jury, and the police officer must be bold indeed who would array themselves against these infamous establishments and
Within ten years, the House of Commons of England has adjourned on Derby Day to go out to bet on the races, and in the best circles of society in this country to-day are many hundreds of professedly respectable men who are acknowledged gamblers.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars in this land are every day being won and lost through sheer gambling.
Says a traveller through the west.
I have travelled a thousand miles at a time upon the western waters and seen gambling at every waking moment from the commencement to the termination of the journey.
The southwest of this country reeks with this abomination in New Orleans, every third or fourth house in many of the streets is a gaming place, and it may be truthfully averred that each and all of our cities are cursed with this evil.
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