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Letter to Editor
May 5, 1795
Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
What is this article about?
A letter in the American Spy at Lansingburgh addresses Mr. Hull, criticizing his operation of a billiard table as promoting idleness and dishonorable gain, urging him to instead clear land through manual labor, and threatening intervention if he persists.
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LACONIC ADDRESS.
From the American Spy, printed at Lansingburgh.
To Mr. HULL.
SIR,
I AM informed that you keep a Billiard Table in town, and that you do no other business than to attend it.
You are able to cut down twenty trees 3 feet over, in a day :-labour bears a great price; and it would be much more to your honour to go into the woods and clear a fallow of ten acres, than to support yourself as you do. I should think the very thoughts of supporting such a great, healthy, lubberly fellow as you are, in idleness, would be sufficient to keep the gentlemen of the town from your table. From a very moderate calculation, you have taken two hundred dollars this spring for your table, besides the enormous sums you won by playing yourself. Now, Sir, I tell you to be off with yourself and table very suddenly, or such measures will be taken as will put a stop to such a shameful practice.
E. L.
From the American Spy, printed at Lansingburgh.
To Mr. HULL.
SIR,
I AM informed that you keep a Billiard Table in town, and that you do no other business than to attend it.
You are able to cut down twenty trees 3 feet over, in a day :-labour bears a great price; and it would be much more to your honour to go into the woods and clear a fallow of ten acres, than to support yourself as you do. I should think the very thoughts of supporting such a great, healthy, lubberly fellow as you are, in idleness, would be sufficient to keep the gentlemen of the town from your table. From a very moderate calculation, you have taken two hundred dollars this spring for your table, besides the enormous sums you won by playing yourself. Now, Sir, I tell you to be off with yourself and table very suddenly, or such measures will be taken as will put a stop to such a shameful practice.
E. L.
What sub-type of article is it?
Persuasive
Ethical Moral
Provocative
What themes does it cover?
Morality
Social Issues
What keywords are associated?
Billiard Table
Idleness
Honest Labor
Lansingburgh
Moral Rebuke
Manual Labor
What entities or persons were involved?
E. L.
Mr. Hull
Letter to Editor Details
Author
E. L.
Recipient
Mr. Hull
Main Argument
mr. hull should abandon his billiard table business, which promotes idleness and yields ill-gotten gains, and instead engage in honorable manual labor like clearing land, or face measures to halt the practice.
Notable Details
Able To Cut Down Twenty Trees A Day
Earned Two Hundred Dollars This Spring From Table
Threatens Measures To Stop The Practice