The Madisonian., 1840-01-07
PROSPECTUS OF THE
SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER.

THOMAS W. WHITE, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
THlS is A MONTHLY MAGAZINE devoted
i chiefly TO literature, but. occasionally finding room
for articles that fall within the scope Science and not
protesting entire dlsdnln of tasteful seeefion ihong
us matter has been as y will continue 10 be- in the
original.
Party politics and controversial theology as far as pos
sible, are Jealously excluded They sometimes
blended with discussions literature or in moral science
otherwise unobectonalle 10 gain adInitiance or III
sake of the valuable matter to which they adhere
but whenever that happens, they incidental only
primary. They dross tolerated only because il can
not well be severed from the sterling wherewith
incorporated.
Reviews and Critical Notices occupy their due spa
in the work and it is the editors that they shoui
have threeiold tendency-to convey in a condensed
form, such valuable truths interesting incidents
embodied in the works revewed-to direct the readers
attention to books that deserve to he read,-and 10
him against wasting time and money upon that large nun
Der, which only be burned In tins age OF puhi-
cations that by rhelr variety and multitude distract and
overwhelm every undscrimnang student impartial
criticism governed by the views just mentioned rs one OF
the most inesnable and Indispensable OF auxianes, To
him who does wish TO discriminate.
Essays and Tales, having in viewniiiy or amusement
or boh.-His,orical Sketches,--and "reminiscences Of
minute for history, yet eucdang 1t, and height
ening its be regarded as forming the staple
of the work And of indigenous poetry, enough Is pul-
lished-somemes of strain--to manifest and Z"
cultivate the growing poetica taste and talents OF on"
country. .. 81.
The appear, for several reasons, to demand such
a work-and alone, bu, many. j he public nina
is feverish and ated still, from recent political slries
The Soft influence of literature IS needed 10
aay that fever and soo,he that irritation, Vice andioy
riotng abroad They should bt driven by indignant
rebuke, lashed by ndicue, into their htting hahl'.
Ignorance lords it an immense proportion OF ot
people Eyey spring should be set In notion 10 arouse
the enlightened and to increase their number so that NE
enemy Of popular government may no longer bro",
like portenous cloud the destnies OF our country
And TO accomplish all these ends, what more powerful
agent can be employed than periodical the plan OF
the Messenger if that plan be but carried practice
The South, peculiarly, requnes such an agent. In all
thaI Intnn thpfW fhsra I,ff
periodicals Norhward Of that city, there probably at
least twenty-five thirty Is this contrast justified by
the wealth, the leisure the native talent or the actual
literary taste Of the Southern people, compared with those
of the Northern No: for in wealth, talents, and taste
we may Justly claim at least equality with our bre
thren; and domestic institution exclusively our own,
beyond all doubt affords choose twice the leisure
for reading and writing which they ENJOY.
1t from a deep of this local want that the
word SOUTHERN engrafted the of this
periodical and with any design to nourish local pre-
JUDGES, advocate supposed local interests Far from
any such thought it is the editors erven wish TO The
North and South bound endearngly together forever
the silken bands OF mutual kindness and affection Far
from meditatng hostility to tie North he has already
drawn and he hopes hereafter to draw much OF his choicest
matter thence ano happy indeed will he deem himself
should his pages by making each region know the other
better contribute in any essential degree TO dlspe me
lowering clouds that threaten the peace OF both and
To brighten and strengthen the sacred ties OF fraterna
love.
The Southern Literary Messenger has reached the
fifth No Of its third volume How far il has acted out the
ideas here uttered it is not for the editor to say he
believes however that it falls not further short OF Them
than human weakness usually makes practice fall short OF
theory.
The Messenger is issued monthly. Each number OF the
work contains GA large supeoyal pages printed IN 'he
very handsomest manner, on new type, anu on paper
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The postage the Messenger cents on any sl
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Southern Literary Messenger Office, Richmond Va
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