The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1839-11-20
PROSPECTUS OF THE
SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER,

SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER
THOMAS ". WRITE. EDITox AND PROPRIETOR
THIS is A MONTHLY MAGAZINE, devoted
Il chiefly TO literature but occasionally finding room
for articles that fan within tie scope OF Science and no,
protesting entire dsdzrn Vi tasteful seczns thong
its matter has been, it win conrlnne be- IN the mai
original
Party politics and theology as fr as pos
sible, jeal0usly excluded They ate sometimes
blended with discussions in literature moral
otheTw unobjeetionable, to gain adnanCe or
sake Of the valuable matter to whch they adhere
but whenever that happens, they inSdea;ai only
primary They dross, tolerated only because il
not we'll be severed from the sterling whsre~lth it
incorporated.
Reviews and Critical Nosees occupy their due spa
in the work; and u Is the editors aim that they shou
have threeoR '~-4sncy-so convey in condensed
form, such valuable truths interesting incidents
embodied in the works reue~edo direct the readers
attention books that deserve be and
him against wasting and money upon that large
ber which merit only to be burned In this age OF publ
cations that by fheH variety AID multitude distract and
criticism governed by the views past mentioned of
the most ines,mahe and indispensable Of auxlianes,
him who does wish TO discriminate.
Essays and Tales, having utility amusemtnt,
b0th,-Historical Sketehes,-ind "reminiscences of
events mrnase for history yet calculating il, and height
enng It's interestingly be regaed forming the staple
of the work. And Of Indigenous poetry, enough pub
hshed-sometimes Of no mean s.ran-'o manifest and TO
cultivate the growing Poetrcal taste and talents Of our
country
The times appear for several reasons demand such
a work-and not alone, bat many. The public mind
is ferersh and rr'aed sti from recent political s,nies
The soft influence OF literature needed, to
allay thai fever and soohe that irritation. Vice and folly
rotiHg abread: They sheud be driven by indignant
rebuke dashed by ridicuis, into their fitting haunt'
Ignorance lords il over immense proportion Of our
people. Every spring should he set IN motion, 10 arouse
the enlightened and to Increase their number; that the
great enemy Of popular longer brood,
like portenssus cloud, the destes Of country.
And to accomplish all these ends, what more powerful
agent can be employed than perodea on the plan Of
the Messenger If that plan be bn carried out practe
The South peculiarly, reqn,ses sieh agent. In ali
the nea south Of Washington, there are ba TWO literary
periodicals. Norsh~ard Of chat city there probably at
least five thirty Is ths contras, justified by
the wealth, the leisure. the native talent, the actual
literary of the Southern people compared with those
Of the Northern No for IN wealth. talents and taste
may Justly cfaim at least equality with oar bre-
thren and domestic institution exclusively oar own,
beyond all doubt affords ms we choose twice the eisure
for reading ard writing, wEsrh asy ENJOY.
h was from deep Of this local want that the
word SOUTHERN eRgrafted the name OF this
PERIODICAL and not with any design to Bourish local
any saeh ,hough the editors ersat wish to the
North Md South bouyd ends2ringly together forever
the sien bands OF mutual badness ard Affection Far
drawn and he hopes odra mech Of ehoicesE
thence happy indeed viii he deem himself.
shoad has pages by making each region know the other
BETTER contribute any essential degree to dspel the
lowering clouds that threaten the peace Of BETH and
TO brighten and strengthen the sacred ties Of fnsernaf
The Southern Literary sssenear has row reached the
fifth Ne Of It's third velms Flow Far has acted GOT the
IDEAS here uttered it fer tho editor to say He
believes howe ever that il fails not further short Of them
than huan WEAKNESS usually makes practice a short Of
theory.
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