The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1839-12-21
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SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGEI

/ PhO5FECTUS OF The
| SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER
/ THOMAS W. WHITE. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
| THIS is A MONTHLY MAGAZINE, devoted
chiefly 10 literature, but occasionally finding room
for articles that fall within the scope of Science and not
processing entire dsdain OF tasteful selections thong
It's matter has been, asit will continue to be, the a
original
Party politics and controversial theosx as pos
sible, Jealously excluded They sR sometimes
blended with discussions in literature science
otherwise unobjeciionable TO gain adntance or lii
sake Of the valuable matter to which they adhere
but whenever that happens, they incidental only no
primary They are dross tolerated only because it
not well be severed from the sterling ~here~thui
| incorporated.
Reviews and Critical Notices occupy their due spa
in the work and il is the editors thai they shou
have a threefod tendency-to convey condensed
FORM such valuable truths interesting incidents
embodied in the works reviewedto direct the readers
attention TO books that deserve 10 be readand
him against wasting time and money upon that argeDum
Der, which merit only To be burned In this Of publ.
cations, that by fheir variety and multitude distract and
overahelm every Understanding student, impartial
criticism, governed by the views Just mentioned one Of
the most inesmable and Indispensable Of auxIares 10
him who does wish to discriminate. ..
/ Essays and Tales having in vlewutty or amusement
I or both,-Hsiorcal Sketches,-and "reminiscences Of
events too minute for history yet Calculating il and height
ening It's Interestingly be regarded as forming the staple
OF the work And OF indigenous poetry, enough is pub
ished-sometnes OF no mean stran-to manifest and 10
cultivate the growing poetical taste and talents Of our
! country. $685..
The times appear for several reasons demand such
a work-and not alone, but many. The public mind
is feversh and initaed STILL from political stries
The soft assuasive influence of literature is needed, to
allay that fever and soohe that irritation Vice and folly
rlotng abroad They should be driven by indignant
rebuke, dashed by rdicule, into their fitting hannty.
Ignorance lords It over an immense proportion OF our
people. Every spring should be set IN motion TO arouse
the emil ghtened and to increase their number that toe
great enemy of popular government may longer brood,
like portcnous cloud, the destines Of country.
And to accomplish all these ends, what more powerful
agent be employed than periodical on the plan OF
the Messenger that plan be but earned ou1 III pNrue
The South, peculiarly, requires such an agent IN all
the Union. south Of Washington there are but two eaN
periodicals Northward Of that city, there are probably AT
least weniyf five thirty Is this contrast JUSTIFIED W
the wealth, the leisure the native talent or the actual
literary taste OF the Southern people compared wth"e
of the Northern Nor for in wealth, talents and TASTE
may Justly claim at least equality with our hfe'
thren and domestic institution exclusively our own
beyond all doubt affords if choose, twice the leisure
for reading and writing, which they ENJOY
1t was from deep sense Of this local want that the
word SOUTHERN engrafted the name OF ,his
periodical; and not with any design to noursh local pre-
udces TO advocate supposed local interests Far from
such thought is the editors eryent wish to see the
North and South bound endearngy together forever.
the sken bands of mutual kindness and affection Far
from medtating hostility to tie North, he has already
drawn and he hopes hereafter draw much of his choicest
matter thence; ana happy indeed will he deem himself
should his by making each region know the other
BETTER contribute in any essential degree to dspel the
lowering clouds that threaten the peace of BOTH and
10 brighten and strengthen the sacred ties OF rateha
love.
fifth No Of its third volume. How far il has acted out the
ideas here uttered it is not for the editor to say He
believes however that it falls not further short OF them
than human weakness usually makes practice fall short OF
theory.
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