THE

AMERICAN DEBATER:

BEING

A PLAIN EXPOSITION OF THE PRINCIPLES AND
PRACTICE OF PUBLIC DEBATE:

WHEREIN WILL BE FOUND,

AN ACCOUNT OF THE QUALIFICATIONS NECESSARY TO A GOOD DELIBERATIVE
ORATOR, AS ALSO THE MODE OF ACQUIRING THEM, THE RULES OF ORDER
OBSERVED IN DELIBERATIVE ASSEMBLIES, DEBATES IN FULL, AND IN
OUTLINE, ON VARIOUS INTERESTING TOPICS, NUMEROUS QUESTIONS

FOR DISCUSSION, FORMS OF A CONSTITUTION FOR LITERARY
CLUBS OR DEBATING SOCIETIES, ETC., ETO.

BY JAMES N. McELLIGOTT, LL.D.,

AUTHOR OF "THE ANALYTICAL MANUAL," "YOUNG ANALYZER," TO

"Here is a thing wherein I would willingly have you agree, that is, to DISPUTE and
not to QUARREL; for friends dispute between themselves for their better instruction,
and enemies quarrel to destroy one another."-PLATO.

IVISON, PHINNEY & CO., 48 & 50 WALKER ST.
CHICAGO: S. C. GRIGGS & CO., 39 & 41 LAKE ST.
BOSTON BROWN, TAGGARD & CHASE. PHILADELPHIA: SOWER, BARNES
& CO., AND J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO. CINCINNATI: MOORE, WILSTACH,
KEYS & CO. SAVANNAH: J. M. COOPER & CO. ST. LOUIS: KEITH
& WOODS. NEW ORLEANS: BLOOMFIELD, STEEL & CO.
DETROIT: F. RAYMOND & CO.

1860.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by

JAMES N. McELLIGOTT,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.

FORMS OF A CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS SUITABLE FOR A LIT-

ERARY OR DEBATING SOCIETY.

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