The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-04-03
PROSPECTUS OF THE
SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER.

THOMAS W. WHITE, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
THIS is A MONTHLY MAGAZINE, dcynri
i chiefly 10 literature, but occasionally finding ,"
for articles that fall within the scope of Science and
PROCESSING entire dlsian OF tasteful selections tho
its matter has been, it will continue to be, in the
original
Party politics and controversial theology as far as u,.
slbe, are Jealously excluded. They are sometimes
blended with discussions in literature moral
otherwise unobectionable to gain admi,tance for
sake of the more valuable matter which they adhru
but whenever that happens they incidental only
primary. They dross tolerated only because
not well be severed from the sterling wherewit )
Incorporated.
Reviews and Critical Notices OCCUPY their due >,.,rc
in the work; and it is the editors aim that they
have threcfold tendency-to convey in a con,i g,>u
form, such valuable truths interesting incidents
embodied in the works reviewed-to direct the rCd5t
attention 10 books that deserve 10 be ad-and a.
him against wasting time and money upon that large
Der, which merit only to be burned In tins Of ~
cations that by their variety and multitude dslrac
oyerwhclm every Understanding student, lmpurp
criticism, governed by the views just mentioned,
the most nestimable and indispensable of auxlhar,s
him who does wish to discriminate.
Essays and Tales having in vicwuy or amuscu.'.'
or boh,-Iiistorical Sketches,-and Remlnsccucc> ].
events too minute for history yet eucidatng IT, and
enlng Its Interestingly be regarded forming the ~
of the work. And of Indigenous poetry enough Is .
shed-somctimes of s,ran-to manifest and Y
cultivate the growing poetical taste and talents q @"
country.
The times appear for several reasons demand soh
work-and not alone, but many The putIr nld
is icverish and irated STILL from recent political s'>
The soft, assuasvc influence of literature Is needed"
allay that fever, and soothe that irritation Vice AMI '
rioting abroad They should be driven by Indll'H'
rebukc, dashed by rldcue, into their fitting rrl',
Ignorance lords il immense proportion ~ rr
people Every spring should be set in motion, TO arose
the enlightened, and 10 increase their number; so t'
great enemy Of popular government may no longer n'
like portcntous cloud, the dcstnies OF our COMFY
And TO accomplish all these ends what more pow,fa
agent can be employed than periodical tho IAN q,
the Messenger if that plan be but carried out in ar
The South peculiarly, requires such an agent. y y
the Union, south of Washington there but two literary
periodicals Northward Of that CITY, there probably
least twenty-five thirty! Is this contrast lustihed
the wealth. the leisure the native talent. the acU"
literary taste of the Southern people compared Hrh'a,r
OF the Northern No: for in wealth, talents and is',
may Justly claim at least equality with or r..
hren; and a domestic institution exclusively our 2"
beyond all doubt affords If We choose twice thr ~
for reading and writing, which they ENJOY
II was from deep sense of this local want, ihS' Y"
word SorrnERN was cngraned on the name q.
periodical and not with any design 10 nounsh oca t
udlces 10 advocate supposed local interests, far l
any such thought is the editors crvcnt wish to Sc "
North and South bound endeariney together forever
the sllkcn bands OF mutual Kindness and affection ~
from meditating hostility 10 TIC North he has alr'aA
drawn, and he hopes hereafter 10 draw much OF his rho
matter thence; ano happy indeed wlli he deem h'u>
should his pages, Ivy making each region kno" we y
better contribute in any essential degree TO di>i
lowering clouds that now threaten the peace OF bot
TO brighten and strengthen the sacred lies oi Ha'
love.
The Southern Literary Messenger has now rcacIc ~
fifth No Of lis third volume, How far ii has actr,, IF =
IDEAS hero uttered. il is not for the editor 10 n
believes however, that it falls not further short y
than human weakness usually makes practice fall Sh'
theory,
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