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.

A FULL AND TRUE EXPOSITION OF ALL THE VARIOUS Crimes, Villanies, and Misdeeds OF THIS POWERFUL ORGANIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES. BY THE REFORMED GAMBLER, JONATHAN H. GREEN. AUTHOR OF THE GAMBLER'S LIFE, GAMBLING EXPOSED, THE REFORMED GAMBLER; OR, AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF J. H. GREEN, ETC. WITH ILLUSTRATIVE ENGRAVINGS.
This is a most fearful and startling exposition of crime, and gives the true and secret history of a daring and powerful secret association, the members of which, residing in all parts of the country, have for a long period of years been known to one another by signs and tokens known only to their order. This association has been guilty of an almost incredible amount of crime. Beautifully embellished with Illustrative Engravings, from original designs by Darley and Croome. — Courier.
Philadelphia: T. B. PETERSON AND BROTHERS, 306 CHESTNUT STREET.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, by T. B. PETERSON, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

The vice of gambling is peculiarly destructive. It spares neither age nor sex. It visits the domestic hearth with a pestilence more quiet and stealthy, but not less deadly, than intemperance. It is at once the vice of the gentleman, and the passion of the blackguard. With deep shame we are forced to admit that the halls of legislation have not been free from its influence, nor the judicial bench unstained by its pollution.
It is against this vice, which is now spreading like a subtle poison through all grades of society, that the present work is directed. The author is not a mere theorist. He speaks from experience—dark and bitter experience. The things he has seen he tells; the words he has heard he speaks again. Some of these scenes curdle the blood in the veins, even when remembered; some of these words, whenever whispered, recall incidents of singular atrocity, and thrill the bosom with horror.