The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-06-13
Press and Banner.
Wednesday. June 13, 1877.
Public Debate.


Public Debate.
The Jackson Literary Society gave
+ their third public annual dcha:c tn the
court House on Monday night last before
n apprcciative audience of our best pco-
bio. The young gentlemen, as clear
- thinkers and easy SpeakrS, acquitted
i themselves with much credit. The
hrrav of arguments being 50 nearly equal
in force that it was with difficulty that
8manv of the audience were able to de-
tided which presented the strongest
points. f.. Noble, jr., Esq, was Chair
nan Of the meeting, IL after some ap-
bropriate remarks, he introduced Mr.. j.
N. Jones, the first orator of the evening,
when the sharp encounter commenced.
9The question discussed waS-"IS Time
greater as a Destroyer or as ~1mprover?'
Mr.. JOSHUA Y. JONES
] cd the van on the side Of the affirmative.
BILE is a good writer and a ready speaker.
hnd is never at a loss for something to say.
He can make a speech or court his lady
love with grace and gallMltrv. On this
occasion he said:
IF bn Ind hccn ollovol IN cnr.,,t
his ow, wishes and ~inrIirntinus h. ,ynnIj
he q listener and voter instead of an nrt-
or; that two speakers had Withdrawn,
land at the eleventh hour he came in
Simply to fill up the side; be would al
how those who had prepared themselves
3to argue the question to 20 forward. He,
Hsimplv argued in general terms. and
nnrrIv MARKED, The subject. wiihnut
nivinI his Il chan:c 70 strike nj
Him Ills ararun,cnt was confined to the
effects OF time uoDn the ami
bn,l vegetable and mineral k;nrlou, .
said ono of the errors was to
7rcrarl time rs AN awcn; when in reality
lit was nothing and could ACCOMPLISH
nothing; that we used i; rs agrncral term
or co,npenduous expression to denote
Those active causes and agents which act
Slowly and impcrccptuilv upon the ma
tcrial world that If thcrc were no active
causes and agents at work there would be
no SnaitSc Al t,c ""an ~, u 49, d 'nnn.
effects of time upon man, the nOblcSt of
c'od : cTta'ultH' tia t'it l"oIt ntau'!lal
Voice the noblest Intellect. must MI ere
long succumb to the destroying cncroacll-
menis OF time. Ancient Egypt. Greece
anu noliu, oi.' n my m"nne " svirrTv,
NO rn,oIy;uy whn.l. nf limo mi
Eroeca fhr hriyh. lunIinorv of Icar,,inr
tho DWELLING mace of r,..ts uhilo~nnm.r.
an1 st,tesimnn Will ter ryri,ls nf ,i,-
ice No. rnr.nn,,. t].,un1r. AMI c.,tnI>-
columns lad been DESTROYED b. fine re-
morsnlr.s action of Iimc. tbaf Ronr
mightv Rome. once the proud n,iStrr>, of
a ~subiucatrd world, was no more: thati
her MAGNIFICENT ri,ioS. her Snlrulii tenn
pies, her great men. the greatest that has
ever praccd the world. had all been
crushed by the rclnorSclcSS wheels of
timo lie soiL whau wr nIanco borE in
+, thn orrs Of the past roll >, K Ire bjl-,
law tide Of lime, unlHiI The m0ullcriny
rncorl of a~os ond lbnrr r,,l fine DE-
Strnrinr objects of limo iIat fine c,,c)u-
sion WI. irrrsistnbiv forced uron us.
that nothing in the animate or in:linnair
crrotion c1ull successfully resist the de- !
slrpving encroacirnrutS 0r';inr.
ELLIS G. GEAiDoN, : i
n,vt f,llownd who h,1 - woII wri,:rn
49,.
'sPcecil Va 'A' H'9a'i>t >'"c VI lux 4"''-
ton. Mr.. GraNdon iSa promising young
1,wvc. . ron1 l,r;.;,, and , fnrcihln
-.
"i'| 'too'!'e 'p''h''. !" HIoNV S""-
substantially rs ioi!""S:
All things arc divided int tie bacterial
and the lmmatcfia. Time ;uay crunhic
the monuments of human greatness. may
destroy the forms Of matcrla! objects,
may resolve them into their constituent
,n,nL ,n, ~ nhilonnrL,. 10, ~, .,na
atom which has been called into being by
lhe iat vi Inc oTea'of can ever De HrS'roy-
ion. # tnn inma.Dri,I we .;,,ll .nn ,hot
time operates upon it only as an inlprovcr.
Take for instance, mind in the abstract,
h"' .,n,TiIr ~" " f :. -, SC tin. t;"4U
aLop: everything Of rood and to shun
the errors, mistakes and t0!lics of the