The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1839-11-13
PROSPECTUS OF THE
SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER,
THOMAS W. WHITE, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

ThooTEIlUS VI lHE
SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER,
THOMAS W: WHITE, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
THIS is A MONTHLY MAGAZINE, devoted
L chiefly to literature but occasionally finding room
for articles that fall within the scope of Science and not
processing an entire disdain Of tasteful selections thong
Its matter has been it viii continue be, in the mai
original
Party politics and controversial theology as far as pos
slbe, are Iealously excluded They are sometimes s
blended with discussions in or in moral science
otherwise unobJectionabe to gain admittance til
sake OF the valuable matter which they adhere
but whenever that happens, they incidental only
primary They dross, tolerated only because IL
not well be severed from the sterling wherewith
Incorporated.
Reviews and Critical Notices occupy their due spa
in the work and it is the editors aim that they shout
have threefold tendency-to convey in condensed
FORM such valuable truths interesting incidents
embodied in the works reviewedo direct the readers
attention to books that deserve TO be and to
him against wasting time and money upon that large
ber which merit only to be burned In this of publ.
cations that by he variety and multitude distract and
overahem every undiscriminating STUDENT impartial
criticism, governed by the views just mentioned Of
the most nestimabe and indispensable of auxiares TO
him who does wish to discriminate.
Essays and Tales, having in view utility or amusement,
or both,-Hisorical Sketches,-and "Reminiscences of
events too minute for history, yet calculating it, and height
enng its Interest," be regarded as forming the staple
of the work. And Of Indigenous poetry enough is pub
Understandings of stranto manifest and TO
cultivate the growing poetica taste and talents OF our
country.
The times appear for several reasons demand such
awork-and not alone, but many. The public mind
is feverish and rritated STILL from political strfes
The soft, assussive influence of literature is needed
aay that fever and soothe that irritation. Vice and folly
are roting abroad They should be driven by indignant
rebuke dashed by ndicule, into their fitting hauns.
Ignorance lords 1t over an immense proportion of our
people Every spring should be set in notion TO arouse
the enlightened, and to increase their number that the
great enemy OF popular government may longer BROOD
like portentons cloud, the destines Of country
And to accomplish all these ends, what more powerful
agent can be employed than periodical on the plan OF
fha atna hah lfr
The South, peculiarly, requires such agent In all
the Union south of Washington, there but two Literary
periodicals Norhward Of that city, there probably al
least twenty five thirty Is this contrast justified by
the wealth, the leisure. the native talent the actual
literary Of the Southern people, compared with those
Of the Norhern Mo- for in wealth. talents, and taste,
may Justly claim at least equality with our bre-
thren and domestic institution exclusively our own,
beyond all doubt affords if choose, twice the leisure
for reading and writing, which they enjoy
II from deep of this local want, that the
word SOUTHERN engrafted the name of this
periodical and not with any design to noursh local pre-
udices or to advocate supposed local Far from
any such thought it is the editors ervent wish to the
North and South bound endearingy together forever IN
the sken bands Of mutual kindness and affection Far
from meditatng hostility to tie North, he has already
drawn and he hopes hereafter draw much of his choicest
matter thence happy indeed will he deem himsef
should his by making each region know the other
better contribute in essential degree 10 dispe the
lowering clouds that threaten the peace of both and
brighten and strengthen the sacred ties Of fraterna
love.
fifth No Of its third volume How far has acted out the
ideas here uttered it is not for the editor to say lie
believes however that 1t falls not further short OF them
than human weakness usually makes practice fall short OF
theory.
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equal at least to that on which any other periodical is
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