Secret Band of Brothers / A Full and True Exposition of All the Various Crimes, Villanies, and Misdeeds of This Powerful Organization in the United States

Their silence would be of far more service to the cause of virtue than their opinions.

the cool and deliberate patrons of vice, and especially with many, who, though they were often covered with a garb of outward morality, were full of rottenness within.

The vice of gambling is peculiarly destructive. It spares neither age nor sex.