The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1839-09-07
PROSPECTUS OF THE
SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER,

PROSPECTUS OF THE
SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER
| THOMAS w. WHITE, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
THIS is A MONTHLY MAGAZINE, devoted
i chiefly TO literature, but occasionally finding fom
for articles that fall within the scope OF Science andnt
protesting an entire disdan of tasteful selections it,g
It's matter has been, as it will continue TO be- in the
original .!
sble, are jealousy excluded. They are sometimes
blended with discussions in literature in moral sqcc
otherwise unobectonabe, as TO gain Abundance orh
sake Of the valuable matter which they adhere
but whenever that happens, they incidental only
primary. They are dross tolerated only because !, can
Incorporated
Reviews and Critical Notices occupy their due spa
in the work and it is the editors aim that they shout
have threefold iendency--to convey in condensed
form, such valuable truths interesting incidents
embodied in the works reviewed. Ito direct the readers
attention 10 books that deserve TO be read,and TO
him against wasting time and money upon that large
Der, which merit only to be burned In this age Of pnh
cations that by their variety and multitude distract and
overwhelm every undscriminating student impartial
criticism governed by The views just mentioned is one Of
the most inesmable and indispensable Of auxiliares,
him who does wish to discriminate
Essays and Tales having view utility amusement,
or both,-Hisorical Sketches,-and "reminiscences Of
events too minute for history yet calculating and height
enng its interest be regarded forming the staple
Of the work. And Of Indigenous poetry, enough is pub
lished-sometimes Of mean strain-o manifest and 10
cultivate the growing poetica taste and talents OF
country.
The times appear, for several reasons to demand such
a work-and not alone, but many. The public mind
is everish and nitated STILL from political strifes
The soh, assuasve influence Of literature is needed
aay that fever and soothe that irritation Vice and folly
are noting abroad They should be driven by indignant
rebuke or dashed by rdicule, into their fitting harnts
Ignorance lords it over immense proportion OF our
people. Every spring should be set in notion arouse
the enlightened and to increase their number tina, the
great enemy Of popular government may no longer brood,
like portenous cloud over the destlnles Of our county
agent be employed than periodical the plan Of
the Messenger If that plan be but carried out in practice
The South, peculiarly requhes such an agent In all
the Union, south Of Washington there but two literary
periodicals Northward OF that city, there probably
least twenty-five thirty Is this contrast justified by
the wealth. the leisure the native talent or the actual
literary Of the Southern people, compared with those
of the Northern No: for in wealth. talents, and taste,
may justly claim at least equality with our bre-
thren; and domestic institution exclusively own,
beyond all doubt affords us, If choose the leisure
for reading and writing which they enjoy.
It was from deep sense of this local want, that the
word SOUTHERN was engrahed on the name Of this
periodical and not with design 70 nourish local pre-.
JUDGES, advocate supposed local interests Far from
any such thought il rs the editors ervent wish to the
North and South bound endearngly together forever
the slken bands Of mutual kindness and affection Far
from meditatpg hostility 10 the North, he has already
drawn, and he hopes hereafter draw, much
should his pages by making each region know the other
BETTER contribute any essential degree to dspel the
lowering clouds that now threaten the OF both, and
TO brighten and strengthen the sacred ties Of fraiena
love.
The Southern Literary Messenger has now reached the
fifth No. Of its third volume How far has acted out the
ideas here uttered II is not for the editor say He
believes however, that it falls not farther short of them
than human weakness usually makes practice fall short OF
theory.
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