Victorious liberty and heavy bets in Washington gambling den
Correspondence from Washington describes a famed gambling house on Pennsylvania Avenue where wealth from betting and lavish entertainments drew officials and planters. The piece contrasts the opulent scene with the moral critique and notes a senator’s heavy losses and a later shift in the establishment’s notoriety.
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