The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-12-01
THE SOUTHERN MAGAZINE AND
MONTHLY REVIEW.

A specimen number of the Southern Mag
azine and Monthly Review" has been issued.
We acknowledge its receipt. Its scope and
design are fully set forth in the following, which
we copy from the Norfolk Beacon:
The Prospectus of new Political and Lite
rary work TO be entitled the SOUTHERN MA
GAzINE AND MONTHLY REVIEW" and to be
| published in Petersburg, Va, at the press and
under the auspices of EDMUND RUFFIN, ESQ.
so well known throughout the Union as the a
| bic editor of the farmers Register, has beer
| put into my hands within few days past, t.
| which beg leave to call the attention of the
public through the medium of your print.
ask this favor the more readily at your hands
because on reference to the Prospectus, it will
be found that although one department of this
work will be found to be political it will al
so be discovered that this title is intended to
embrace only the great question "of political
economy and general policy, and not at all the
despicable contests of parties for power or
pelf" II moreover declares its intentiont'to be
independent of both the rule and the spirit of
party" while its object and tendency viii be
''to aid in restraining the action of the federal
government Withinits strict constitutional limits
and to advocate the adoption of better const-
tutional securities for the rights of the States
and the liberties of the People, wSerever requir-
ed by existing abuses and gross departure IRON
the true spirit of the government and the de-
sign of its iramers"-addIng ''that these grave
subjects important as they are, will not be per-
mitted to occupy an undue share of space to
the too great exclusion of articles on lighter
and gayer subjects more acceptable to readers
in general"
A circular address accompanying this Pros
pectus enlaTges more fully on the general OBJ
iects and the peculiar want of such periodi-
cal in the Southern portion of the Union, from
which II would appear, as well as from direct
reference IN the late Southern Review, pub
Gshad at Charleston, under the editorial charge
of The late lamented and accomplished Elliot
that the design of the editor Of the proposed
Southern Magazine, is, if justified by sufficient
announcement, to revive in Virginia work
devoted as its elder brother has been, IN South
Carolina, TO the principles of Free Trade,
and strict limitation of federal power" and
for that purpose opening its sheets to Tree dis-
cussion of these great and important subjects
IN ssthat numerous and enlightened class
throughout the nation, who not being united by
any political bond nor marshalled by party tao
tics or controlled by party leaders, and even
separated and scattered IN opposing party
ranks need such an organ for the more pow
erful and successful expression OF their opin-
ions. If will thus be perceived, Messrs Edi-
tors, that the promises of this work are of the
nost liberal and patriotic kind, and as far as
! nossible, removed from the purposes of local
| preiudice OF narrow paItizanship. In short,
understand the auoaced object to be an attempt
on the part of its distinguished publisher to
establish work of the same large and enlight-
ed character 10 reference to the great civil and
poGtico economical interests of our common
country, which he has already so ably and so
advantageously established for years past in
relation to her agricultural interests. 1t is a.
new effort, and may it be eminently and dura
bly successful, to embody the now scattered
talent in the science of government and pollu-
cal economy more peculiarly it is true oil South
ern men, but In no unworthy Jealousy or phar-
asaic spirit towards Northern men, to rouse
the energies of the dormant, and to invite allto
the honorable ambition of culivating the waste
fields of political science by putting into their
hands an instrument by winch all may nope
TO reap larger harvest OF fame for them
selves and ofpauiotc usefulness Tor their eoun-
try, than can possibly be accomplished fol
eitf er through the mere words of the lips
W aich are forgotten in the utterance or the al
aost as euhemeral pages of a newspaper.
Surely. these are laudable, nay, honorable
purposes-yea purposes ofthe tIuest patriotism
and deserving of the best cooperation, moi
merely by subscription, but by intellectual con-
tribution to the pages of the work, on the par'
of eyery patriot Of every shade of political cha
racter. The time chosen for the appearance
4 Of such workalso appears to as highly proPl-