The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1839-10-12
PROSPECTUS OF THE
SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSFNGER

PROSPECTUS OF THE
SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER
THOMAS W. WHITE. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR .
THIS is A MONTHLY MAGAZINE deyaI
i chiefly TO literature, but occasionally fning roa
for articles that fall within the scope of Science and M
protesting entire disdan OF tasteful s,setto, lDe,
It's matter has been, as II VIII continue TO be, the
original
Party politics and controversial theology AS far>a,
sibe, are jeaously excluded. They sometimes
blended with discussions In literature mora scrcp
otherwise unobjectionable, to gain admttauce orm
sake OF the valuable matter 10 which they adhere
but whenever that happens they incidental only
primary. They dross, tolerated only because i caa
not well be severed from the sterling whereWlhHI
incorporated.
Reviews and Critical Notices occupy their due spa
in the work and it is the editors aim that they So
have threefold tendency--to convey in a condensed
FORM such valuable truths interesting incidents
embodied in the works reviewed,to direct th- readers
attention to books that deserve to be ead-and
him against wasting time and money upon that large
Der, which merit only to be burned In this of publ
cations, that by fher variety and multitude distract and
oyerwhelm every undiscrimlnatiDg student, impartial
criticism governed by the views just mentioned, q
the most inestimabe and indispensable of auxarcs, 70
him who does wish to discriminate.
Essays and Tales, having in view utility amusement,
both,-His,orical Shetches,--and "reminiscences oi
events too minute for history, yet calculating it, and height
enng its interestingly be regarded forming the STAPLE
Of the work And of Indigenous poetry, enough pub
lished-somemes of mean straiB-,o manifest and 10
cultivate the growing poetical taste and talents OF our
country
The times appear for several reasons, demand such
work-and not one alone, bu, many The public mind
is feyerish and lrritated STILL from political sies
The soft assuasive influence of literature is needed
aay that fever and soothe that irritation Vice and folly
are roting abroad They should be driven ly indrn,
rebuke dashed by ndcue, into their fitting hauHf',
Ignorance lords it immense proportion OF oa
people. Every spring should lie set in motion,
the enlightened and TO increase their number; that me
great enemy OF popular government may longer brood,
like portentous cloud, the destinies OF onr country
And to accomplish an these ends, what powerful
agent can be employed than periodical III, plan OF
the Messenger If that plan be but carried out in practice
The South, peculiarly, requhes such agent IN all
the Union south OF Washington, there bun two LITERARY
periodicals Northard Of that city, there probably
least twenty five thirty Is this contrast justified IV
the wealth, the leisure the native talent the actual
literary taste Of the Southern people, compared with those
of the Northern! No: for IN wealth, talents, and ast,
may justly claim at least equality with our hre.
thren; and domestic Institution exclusively our own,
beyond all doubt affords we choose, twice the leisure
for reading and writing which they enjoy.
Ii was from deep sense OF this local want, that The
word SOUTHERN engrafed the Of hs
periodical and not with any design to nourish local pre-
JUDGES to advocate supposed local interests Far from
any such thought is the editors ferverd wish the
North and South bound cndearinsly together forever
the sken bands OF muiual kindness and affection Far
from mcdtating hostility to tie North he has already
drawn and he hope draw mseh Of his choicest
matter thence; happy indeed win he deem himself
should his pages, by making each region know the other
better, contribute in any essential degree to ds the
lowering clouds that threaten the peace OF both AMI
brighten and strengthen the sacred ties OF iraera
love.
The Souther Literary Messenger has now reached he
fifth No Of its third veume. How far il has acted out loo
ideas here uttered it is not for the editor TO say ne
believes, however that it falls not further short OF them
than human weakness usually makes practice fail short o.
theory.
The Messenger is issued monthly. Each number OF the
work contains 81 large superroya pages, printed N The
very handsomest manner new type, and on paper
equal at least 10 tina, which any other periodical
printed in eoupiry.
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