The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1839-03-05
PROSPECTUS OF THE
SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER

PROSPECTUS OF THE
SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER,
THOMAS W. WHITE. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
THIS is A MONTHLY MAGAZINE, devoted
i chiefly TO literature, but occasionally finding
Tor articles that fall within the scope OF Science and
protesting entire disdan Of tasteful seecions though
Its matter has been as it will continue to be- in the
original
Party politics and controversial theology ms far as pos
slble are Jeaously excluded. They are sometimes
blended with discussions literature or in moral science
otherwise unobJeconabe, as TO gain admittance or the
sake OF the more valuable matter which they adhere
but whenever that happens, they incidental only not
primary They dross tolerated only because can.
not wc be severed from the sterling ore wherewith is
incorporated.
Reviews and Critical Notices occupy their due spa
in the work and it is the editors aim that they shou
have threefold tendency-to convey in condensed
FORM such valuable truths interesting incidents
embodied in the works reviewedto direct the readers
attention to books that deserve to be read and
him against wasting time and money upon that large
ber which merit only TO be burned. In this OF publ
cations, that by fheir variety and multitude distract and
overwhem even, Understanding student, impartial
criticism governed BY the views just mentioned is Of
the inesmable and indispensable Of auxiaries
him who does wish to discriminate
ESSAYS and Tales having yiewutility
or both,-Historicai Sketches-and "reminiscences Of
events too minute for history Calculating and height
enng its interest be regarded forming the staple
Of the work And OF indigenous poetry, enough pub
shedsometimes Of mean strain-to manifest and to
cultivate the growing poetcal taste and talents Of our
country Et
The times appear for several reasons demand such
work-and not one alone, but many The public mind
is feversh and irated STILL from political strtes
The soft assnasive influence Of literature is needed to
roting abroad They should be driven by indignant
rebuke dashed by ndicule into their fitting haunts.
Ignorance lords it immense proportion OF our
people. Every spring should be motion,
the enlightened and to increase their number that the
great enemy of popular may no longer brood
like portenous cloud, the destines OF our country
And to accomplish all these ends, what powerful
agent can be employed than periodical the plan OF
the Messenger that plan be but carried in practice
The South, peculiarly, requires such agent In all
the Union south Of Washington, there but literary
periodicals. Northward of that CITY, there probably
least twenty five thirty Is this contrast justified by
the wealth. the leisure the native talent the actual
literary taste Of the Southern people, compared with those
Of the Northern Mo- for in wealth talents and taste,
may Justly claim at least equality with our bre-
thren and domestic institution exclusively own,
beyond all doubt affords U.S. choose twice the leisure
for reading and writing, which they enjoy.
It was from deep sense Of this local want that the
word SOUTHERN engrafted on the name Of this
periodical and not with any design TO nourish local pre-
JUDGES advocate supposed local interests Far from
any such thought is the editors fevent wish to the
North and South bound endearngy together forever
the sken bands Of mutual kindness and affection Far
from medating hostility 70 the North, he has already
drawn he hopes hereafter draw much OF his choicest
matter thence; happy indeed will he deem himself
should his pages, by making each region know the other
better contribute in any essential degree 70 dspe the
brighten and strengthen the sacred ties OF aterna
love-
The Southern Literary Messenger has reached the
fifth No Of its third volume. How far has acted out the
ideas here uttered, it is for the editor say. He
believes, however that it falls not further short of them
than human weakness usually makes practice fall short OF
theory
work contains GA large superoya pages printed In the
very handsomest manner on new type, and on paper
equal least to that which any other periodical IS
printed in our country.
No subscription will be received for less than volume
Vhp nrIrp
IS per volume which be paid in all at the time
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avoid Misrepresentation, or future misundersandlng.as
no order will hereafter he attended to unless accompanied
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The postage the Messenger is six cents on any SIN
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