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Delioered befofe tue .qnti- Cunning y4ssocia-

 ton, oa 3tursdoy, 6th inst. by the Req.

 J. W. Moore, Chairman q the Commit

 ice appoiated for tte pta'pose of draioiag

 ap aa Address to tte citizens of the Ter

 rstory.

 FELLOW CITIzENs-As a committee ap- pointed to prepare an address to be laid be- fore the eye of growing community, with view to the correction of existing vices, and the establishment of an orderly and well organized society, we feel the tasl, to be one of no ordinary responsibility.

 We are now entering upon an era when the moral features of soeiey must assume an aspect more uniform and permanent than at any former period. The days of our minority are ending our guardianship hencefofward deYolyes upon ourselves; and, as the usefulness and honor of later years generally depend upon the habits formed, and the conduct pursued, when an indigid- ual first acts for himself. so the first stand taken by rising communities, must, i'll q great degree, decide the condition of gen. erations yet unborn.

 In common with most other new com muaities, where public sentiment has not assumed decided tone, certain vices have been introduced and cherished among us, which we believe calculated to corrupt our morals, retard our prosperity, and destroy our harmony. Among these, the most dangerous and imposing is, that of CAM BLING.

 We believe, fellow citizens, that your views coincide with ours, in regard to the vice here specified; and that nothing more IS wanting, in order to call forth your deci-1 ded, energetic, and persevering efforts for its suppression, than cool and dispassionate reflection upon the nature and tendencies of the practice. But, in attempting to set before you the evils of gaming, we confess the miHi instinetively recoils from the magnitude of the undertaking. It Is an ocean of iniquitY, without bottom or a shore--a wilderness of corruptions, whose dismal swamps and eayerns of death, baflle the powers of description and outstretch the imagination itself. To select and point out feto of its enormites, Is all We at present profess; and in the first place, gambling for money or property, Is radically dtahoaest.

 There are but two ways by which property can be honestly acquired from others, viz; by free gif, or by rendering an eguiualent for what is received. Now, every person pereeiyes that property won by gambling, is obtained Tn neitiaer of these ways. The person who loses does not bestow his money upon the other because he considers him entitled to 1t from con alterations of friendship, worth of character,