The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1839-07-31
PROSPECTUS OF THE
SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER,

SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER,
THOMAS w. WHITE. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
THIS is A MONTHLY MAGAZINE devoted
i chiefly to literature, but occasionally finding
for articles thai fall within the scnpe Of Science and
protesting disdan OF tasteful selections, houg
It's matter has been, will continue TO be, in the mai
original.
sible, are ealously excluded. They are sometimes
blended with discussions literature IN moral science
otherwise unobectonable, to gain abundance or til
sake of the valuable matter TO which they adhere
but whenever that happens, they incidental only no
primary They dross, tolerated only because can
well be severed from the sterling ore where~lth IL
Reviews and Critical Notices occupy their due spa
in the work and it is the editors aim that they Shout
have threetold tendency-to convey y CONDENSED
embodied in the works reviewedo direct the readers
attention books that deserve to be read TO warn
him against wasting time and money that large mum
her, which merit only to be burned In this age of publ
cations that by their variety and multitude distract and
overwhem every, Understanding student Impartial
criticism governed by the just mentioned is OF
the inestifnabe and indispensable OF auxiaes, to
him who does wish to discriminate. "%... ..'
ESSAYS and Tales, having view utility amusement
or both,-Historicai Sketches,-and "reminiscences Of
minute for history, yet eucdang IT. and height
enng its be regarded as forming the staple
Of the work. And of indigenous poetry, enough is pub
shed-sometimes OF mean stran--to manifest and to
cultivate the growing poetica taste and talents OF our
country. a.. ....t
The times appear for several reasons demand such
a work-and not alone, but many. The public mind
is feversh and rrtated STILL from recent political stntes
The soft assuasive influence of literature needed to
allay that fever and soohe that irritation. Vice and folly
riotng abroad They should be driven by indignant
rebuke Or dashed by rdicule into their fitting hann.
Ignorance lords 1t immense proportion OF our
people Every spring should be set notion to arouse
the enlightened and to increase their numbers so that the
great enemy of popular government may no longer brood
like porentous cloud the destines OF country
And to accomplish all these ends, what more powerful
agent be employed than periodical the plan OF
Messenger If that plan be but carried in Practice
The South, peculiarly, requires such an agent IN all
the Union south Of Washington there are but two literary
periodicals Norhward Of that city, there probably at
least twenty five or thirty! Is this justified by
the wealth. the leisure the native talent the actual
literary Of the Southern people, compared withthose
Of the Northern No: for in wealth, talents and taste,
may Justly claim at least an equality with our bre-
thren; and a domestic institution exclusively our own,
beyond all doubt affords il choose, twice the leisure
for reading and writing which they ENJOY. @.S
was from deep sense Of this local want, that the
word SOUTHERN engrafted on the name OF this
perodcal and not with any design 70 nonrsh local pre-
iuces advocate supposed local interests Far from
such thought it is the editors ervent wish TO see the
North and South bound endearingly together forever IN
the sken bands Of mutual kindness and affection Far
from medtating hostility the North he has already
drawn and he hopes hereafter to draw Of his choicest
matter thence ana happy indeed VIII he deem himself
should his pages by making each region know the other
better contribute any essential degree to dspe the
lowering clouds that threaten the peace of both and
brighten and strengthen the sacred ties OF fraenal
love-
The Southern Literary Messenger has reached the
fifth No Of its third volume How far has acted out the
believes however that falls not further short OF them
than human weakness usually makes practice fall short OF
theory. -,
work contains "a large superroya pages printed IN the
very handsomest manner, on new type, and on paper
equal at least to that which any other periodical Is
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