University of Virginia Library

8087. SPECULATION, Gambling and.—[continued].

A spirit of gambling in the public paper has lately seized too many
of our citizens. Commerce, manufactures,
the arts and agriculture will suffer from it,
if not checked. Many are ruined by it; but
I fear that ruin will be no more a correction
in this case than in common gaming.—
To David Humphreys. Ford ed., v, 372.
(Pa., 17911791)gt;