The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-04-28
WE ALL Do FADE AS A LEAF"
AN OLD COPY OF THE DUE WEST TELE.
SCOPE.
The Writings OF DOines of Thirty
Years Ago. With Interesting EX-
trncts FrOu, the PaOer.

tracts From the Paper.
We have before US q copy of the Due Hest
Tclescopc, of date February s, 1854, and, like
old wine, it is better now than when it was
new. 1t is printed on small plea and long
primer, wide columns to the page. There is
in it much of interest. Although only thirty
Nwo years have passed since it was printed
yet nearly every man who is named in it rs
taking prominent part in the affairs Of that
day has closed his career on earth to give an
account of his stewardship Rev. j. l. Bon
ner was editor and proprietor. Rev. ". Il.
Hemph,ll, Rev. d. &. Phillips, Rev. j. NJ
Young, Rev. T. w. Parkison, Rev. n. NJ. Cor
don, and Rev. J. A. Sloan were associate ed
Stors. Except DR.. Phillips, we believe all have
gone to their reward.
The following is published as the "Board OF
Trustees of Erskine College, in that day:
Rev. E. E. Pressly, D. D., Due West, S. c.
Enoch Agnew, NJ: d.. Mississippi.
Geo. w. Pressly, NJ. D.. Abbevillc, S. c.
J. v: Hearst, NJ. p, itAbbeviIc, 5: C.;
Gen. P. Fl. Bradley, Abbcvlllc, S. c.
Mai. w. X. Bradley, Abbevillc, S. c.
Col Samuel Donnald, Abbeville, S.
Col. ID. o. Hawthorn, Abbcvillc, ). Z.
Col. VIM. Wright, York, S. G.
Jas Hemphill, Esq, Chester, S. G.
J. Lindsay. Esq, Due West, $. C.
J. I. Bonner, Due West, S. c.
Rev. ]. 6. Chalmers, Anderson, s. C.
Rev. J. l.. Young Mississippi.
Rev. j. Boyce. Fairfield, s. {.
David Lesly, ESQ.,, Abbevile, $ G.
Hon. j. B. O'Neal. Newbcrry, S. c.
Rev K. G. Grier, Due West. $. {.
A. Haddon, Due West. S. G.
J. L. Ellis, Due West, $: G:
J.R Wilson, D1e West, S. C.
j. Pratt, Due West, S. {.
John Walker Mecklenburg, n. G.
Fl. A. JONES' Esq, Abbeville. S. G.
\. G. Hawthorn, Due West. S. &.
Rev. J. n. Young. Due West, S. c.
OF all that list only Gen. p. H. Bradley, Rev.
James Boyce, D. D., and Rev. J. n. Young are
known to US to be now living. Twenty-siX Of
the twenty-nine have finished their work.
OF the Commissioners of Public Builders.
who gave out the contract for building the Jail
as advertised in this paper, only Samuel Nc
L5owan and Edward Noble survive. The 9TH
ers, John McLaren, H. y. Jones. G. H. Allen,
John II. Wilson and Isaac Branch are with us
no more.
The temperance question occupied a space
in this paper. and its general makeup
was not essentially different from the
newspaper Of to-day. The talk of hard times
was much the same as it is to-day. People
then were poor and taxes were high, too.
From the schedule of the Greenvlle and
Columbia Railroad as advertised, it is to be
seen that Mr.. Syfan ran his train from Able
willie to Hodges in forty-fivc minutes. The
fare from Abbevile to Columbia was Sl.25.
Dr. Bonner in this issue urged the Associate
Reformed Presbyterians of South Carolina to
establish Female College somewhere in the
State, and suggested Newberry as suitable
aptp1 q
that time, but as our readers know, he him
self established the Due West Female College.
Several references are made to the unsatis-
factory manner in which the mails are car
ried and papers lost.
From the following editorial paragraph, it
will be seen that the ways of politicians in
1854 were not dissimilar from the acts of those
who have been in power since the war:
SHAMEFUL. Grant Thorburn, better
known as Laurie Todd," an old man with Il
young wife has been turned out Of a post in
the New York Custom House worth only $40
per week simply because he is Il Whig.'
Reference is made to DR.. Thornwell and the
South Carolina College.
a correspondent reports a sermon by Rev.
Alexander Campbell, the originator of the
-'Christian church, or what irrevercnt peo-
plet term "Campbellte" church. From the re-
portof the sermon, we quote as follows:
"Relative to the founding of the church, Mr..
Campbell had good deal TO say. He said that
everything must of necessity be sustained.
The walls of that house, for instance, were
supported by the foun ndation. The planets Of
the solar system were dependent on the sun
as q centre Of attraction. So was the church
dependent, being founded on u crock" But
church organizations of q more recent date
were not thus founded in his judgment. They
were all dependent, and had every one a sup
port; but that support was a contrivance Of
man.
"Proceeding to specify. he was understood
to say, tnat the Roman Church was just what
its name purportS-it was the plpacy. But
for the genius of papacy the order could not
exist. III this one idea lay the whole secret of
continued identity-destroy the papacy, and
you destroy the church.
"Episcopacy was also represented as depend
ent on the peculiar genius Of its own organ-
Zat!ou and government embracing the whole
machinery of higher and lower orders
amongst the clergy.
"PreSbyterianism in turn was represented
as dependency on human centrlTance.
Having been originated in the organization of
q Presbyterial form of government. IT depend
ed for existence on the genius and work. lngs OF
that system. He contended that Presby ter ian
compact was not the result Of unity in doc
trines but Of the genius of church politics.
"And dCOngregatiOnaiiSm was said also To de-
pend on the workings of its own peculiar Or
ganiZatiOn.
'All these influences were represented as
sectarian and ruinouS in their tendencies but