The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1839-10-16
PROSPECTUS OF THE
SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER

PROSPECTUS OF THE
SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER,
THOMAS W. WHITE. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
THIS is MONTHLY MAGAZINE, devoted
i chiefly TO literature, but occasionally finding room
for articles that fall within the scope Of Science and not
protesting entire disdan Of tasteful selections, thong
its matter has BEEN it will continue TO be, in the
original, .r,L ,o,. "a controversies, ,h.o,osv
sible, are lealousy excluded They are sometimes
blended with discussions literature moral
otherwise unobjectionabe, to gain admance III
sake Of the valuable matter to which they adhere
Tey s apss ea
not well be severed from the sterling ore where~lth
incorporated ,sE
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 or interesting incidents AS
embodied in the works reyiewedto direct the readers
attention to books that deserve to be Tead,and TO
him against wasting time and money upon that large mum
ber which merit only TO pc burned n this age Of publ
overw helm every Understanding student impartial
criticism governed by the views just mentioned is one Of
the most inestmable and indispensable OF auxianes to
him who does wish to discriminate. '.~..
Essays and Tales having in view utility amusement
or both, Historical Sketches -and "reminiscences of
for history yet calculating it, and height
ening its Interestingly be regarded forming the staple
Of the work And Of indigenous poetry, enough is pub.
lished-somemes Of mean strain-to manifest and to
cultivate the growing poeca taste and talents OF our
country. vi. ..
The times appear for several reasons to demand such
a work--and not one alone but many. The public mind
is feversh and rated STILL from political strifes
The soft, assuasive influence Of literature is needed,
alay that fever and soohe tina, irritation Vice and folly
riong abroad They should be driven by indignant
rebuke, dashed by rdicule into their fitting haunts
Ignorance lords it over immense proportion of
people Every spring should be set
the enlightened and 10 increase their number so the
great enemy of popular government longer brood,
like portentous cloud over the desnies Of our country
And to accomplish all these ends what more powerful
agent be employed than periodical the plan of
the Messenger if that plan be but carried out in practice
The South, peculiarly, requires such an agent In all
the Unon south Of Washington, there are but t"omeray
periodicals Northward Of that city there probably at
least twenty-five thirty Is this contrast justified by
the wealth, the leisure. the native talent or the acn"
literary Of the Southern people, compared with those
of the Northern No. for in wealth. talents, and taste,
may justly claim at least an equality with our he-
thren and a domestic institution exclusively own,
beyond all doubt affords u.s. if choose twice the leisure
for reading and writing, which they enjoy.
1t was from deep Of this local want that the
periodicals. and not with any design to nourish local pre-
judces advocate supposed local interests Far from
any such thought is the editors erven wish to see the
North and South bound endearngly together forever,
the sken bands of mutual kindness and affection Far
from meditatng hostility to tie North, he has already
drawn and he hopes hereafter to draw much his choicest
matter thence and happy indeed will he deem himself,
should his pages by making each region know the other
BETTER contribute any essential degree TO dspel the
lowering clouds that threaten the peace OF BOTH and
brighten and strengthen the sacred ties of fraterna
love. ." .. .
The Southern Literary Messenger has reached the
fifth No of its third volume How far has acted the
ideas here uttered. it is not for the editor say He
believes however that it falls further short Of them
than human weakness usually makes practice fall short of
theory
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