Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1839-06-06
PROSPECTUS.
Wll be published in augusta, Ga. on the frs
Saturday of October, 1879, the first number
of q jPeei;iu Journal, to be called

Wil be published in augusta, Ga, on the first
Saturday Of October, 1o3J, the first number
Of a Weekly Journal, to be called
The Southern Pioneer:
Devoted to Tile Llteralur,, Institutions and
Amu-e.ueuts Ol the oulll.
BRowNE E, CUsHNEy& McCArFERrY, Publishers,
CHARLES WYATT RICE, Edit0r.
HE South is the naluraliiun o Literature.
She has ever been 80. Humer strolleti
and sung under the rays of the iervid sun; lta-
y and Greece, have, from their first waKcnIng
into being lis civilized nations, aiiorde,! their
| Poets and Orators The Literary pilgrim
ever bends his step to the South of Europe, as
| his most favored shrine; while there, fond me-
mories throng to his mind, oi the epic strains of
Homer, the soothing measures Ot tE Mantuan
| Swan, the cxulting odes Of Horace aud the
biting sarcasms of Juvenal. While in later
times recIins to the memory oil the fearful
strains oil Dante, the epic measures Of the mad.
man Tasso, the soft strains, Of Petralch, and
the pleasing i'm ges Of BOccacio. And while
thus fondly recalling to memory all these, he
remembers that they d. ewtneir lllspIraio from
! the fervi,l sun oil Italy and Greece. h. fceis
| in the balmy air he breatlIes, in the brilliant
heavens that form tie canopy above lrlm in
the brlliancy of tie sun-se' that glows in the nOli
aud in the tlnts THAI iie air and rrimr spread
over the earth. the inspiration that formed and
developed the genius OF those whom he now so
tondiy regrets.
Such food for inspiration does the Literary
| pilgrim find on the classic shores of Italy and
Greece, and under the fervid sun of the South
And is it pussibe that kindred cline in the
Western Hemisphere presents no parall lei to
| thisl Do the same sun, the same briarcy of
the canopy Of the clouds. the same glorious
sul-setS, the same rich tints upon the landscape
afford no inspiration herei A wilder, more
abrupt scenery than Italy or Greece can boast
speak in living tones 10 their beholders. While
with these an Italian softness of landscape upon
the Ashley the savannah, and other favorite
treams, glorious waterfalls and streaming cass.
cades, are every where claiming their worship
pers in those who dwell among them. And do
all these afford no inspiration! They do in
spire; they have spoken in the eloquent tunes OF
the Ru,Iedges and Pnckneys of the Revolutions
they have spoken in the polished pages of
Grimke; they are now speaking in thr strains
of a Charlton aGillman, Wilde 5imms, Meek.
Butt, Pendleton, Ticknor, Witick. in the f;lith-
full scenes of Longstreet, and in the vivid
sketches of Strong. Ware, Morrow, and Nh
ragne. Aye, more. they are speaking in the
thousands of the young, who cast back to the
mountulns, the waterfalls aud the streams, their
inspiration in living tones, and whose wild
songs through rare publications sometimes star
tie the rubIic ear. They do speak in these
thousand who with a proper medium for
communicating their thoughts TO the public,
would electrify the world by their eloquent
notes. Nor does the South lack for inspira.
ton in her historic incidents. A briefreference
in the mind of each individual to the striking
incidents in the early history of each of the
Southern States, will convince him that they
afford rich mater als from which the ready pen
may draw for amusement and instruction. But
more than all these do the leisure and Oppor-
tunities for mental cultivation that her domestic
institutions afford her citizens, presenr strong
| grounds of belief that The South is des-
tined 10 become the centre of lito rary interest
As this leisure and this opportunity for mental
cultivation find no parallel in any other country
it is natural 10 believe thatthe South is destined
to becnme to the world in new era wlini
Greece was 10 the world in The old.
This is our profession of faith We believe
in word that no part Of the world has greater
| literary resources within herself or ls better
calculated from her natural scenery, the pecu-
liarities of her climate the leisure of her citi-
zens, and her general advantages. to become an
eminentIy literary community, than the South
ern States of this confederacy. This is the
| platform OIL which we intend TO raise Heekty
Journal, to which Southern writers Shal! delight
20 contribute, and which the whole Sontl shall
| be proud to claim as ils own. Believing most
firmly that success will attend our eIertIons, no
effort will be spared to dlaw from every portion
tl,a
which, while they shall be Of a high character,
shall ever range
From grave to gay, from lively 10 severe"
We believe that the institutions of the
| South are founded in the inmutabe laws of the
| be built a fabric Of glory and greatness TO the
South We believe especially that thew af:
! ford to the Southern States the means of out
stripping the rest Of the W ord in their literary
| career And We know that these are times of
peculiar danger to these institutions; we know
| that they are now attacked by the nsidions fo,'
as well as by the open enemy. We shall there
fore place our Journal as a sentinel or the
wateh-tuwer of Southern institutions, ever
"atcntn' for attacks, and ever ready To reprl
| them.
We delight in the amusemcnts and HOLIDAYS
OF the South. We glory in them US fit aml,se-
ments fol people generous and brave, quick
in their impulses, and stunning sluggishness
We delight in the gun and chasr. We hail
merry old Christmas and its cheerful sports as
old friends and true, setting rhe brow free from
| care, making the bosolns of men to glow with
cheerful and friendly emotions, calling friends To
| the festive board and to the exchange OF kind
| Thoughts and sentiments and sending all away
to run IN joytulness their course Of duty until
the invitations 10 JOY and mirth are again re-
newed. The pages of the PIONEER will there.
for, be enlivened with lively chronicles of *
ploits in the sports ofth' field and wilhspirted
! sketches OF the fun and frolic tha, merry od
| Christmas crs loose upon us. We will also, in
order to please all, give weekly abstract of the
most important news Of the day. And for the
fair practisers upon the Piano OF Guitar, shall
| accasiauallx ep,hrllish