The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1841-06-16

that il will bo punctually issued. This number
be able to forward at least some subscribers for the
next. The Editor is after our own heart in his
mention Of tho "Notices Of the Press" He remarks,
aWe have been much grati6ed to see that no
small interest has been felt in enterprizs. Some
praise has been awarded US, but it has not been
mixed-faults quickly visible to the practsed eyes
of Editors have been pointed out. For this frankness
rs we'll as for the commentators we have received,
we now return sincere thanks. improvements is our
aim and every thing calculated to quicken our pace
and keep US onward is acceptable"
This is truly commendable spirit, and we wish
that some others could be actuated by one equally
liberal. Among an Editors many vexatons, the IN
gratitude of his craft is perhaps, the most severe
For instance, some brother Editor, that we never
heard Of before, forwards number of his ferlod-
cal-t Is marked s'peasc notice." mind you-not
please commend. We take seat in our arm CHAIR
wipe our spectacles place them in their proper posi-
ton, and devote as much, and perhaps more LEISURE
than we can well spare, to an examination OF Its con-
tsnts Determined all the while to pass over oil tr-
,ial defects aware that cannot expect our Pecu
liar taste to be grated in every particular and also
conscious that every article which is morally good,
must please some one, even if not precisely adapted
10 our organ of enjoyment in that line. We'll, we
get along very smoothly for montlnin this course,
perhaps even years, until eventually some solitary
article appears which in our conscience we feel
bound to condemn, hold peace. Inmany instan.
COS we have pursued the latter course in few oth-
ers we have exercised what we consider our natural
privilege, and expressed our dsapprobation decided
W. il is true, but in every instance we believe Justly
And what is the result? Why, that Magazine is
henceforth among the missing. But be it SO. SO
long as we WELD the pom at all, however feeby, ii
shal yet be justly; and we will not for the whole
subscription list of any all Of the Magazines in the
: country. disgrace our columns with commentator
Of what is either unjust in character OF impure in
morals. =
Among the number of Magazines with which we
have long exchanged, but two have withdrawn. In
the first place, about year since, the 'SOuthern Lit
srary Messenger" in consequence of our having ex
pressed our surprise that the "History of an Adven
turerns should have been admitted within its pre-
cincts. When that notice was penned, we had seer
no other mention of the story. Immediately after
however, we observed so many, with which ours bore
no comparison for severity, that rather congrau
lated ourselves upon its mldness. Had we no Other
Magazines; "The Messenger" would have been such
n loss thatwe should perhaps have been forced to
subscribe for it, TO supply the dcfcency-forunatey
however. its absence has only somewhat lightened
our Editorial duties.
We did not intend when we commenced this nr.
ticle to- extend it to such length but we suppose
it Is also one of our Editorial privileges occasionally
to thrust our own affairs before the reader and we
shall therefore just add passing notice of GoDE1s
LApY's Book, of which which wo have bocn an ad-
hiring reader for several years. UNTIL in an unlucky
moment for u.s. we noticed what we considered ve-
, ry ungenerous allusion to the "SournERS LADIES
BOOK and put single query whchhas never yet been
answered. Truo, we received the next number, with
few lines on the cover purpotng to be an answer,
=, butt which were about as much TO the point us it
would be, wore some one TO address the following
question tous: Mr. Editor, what has become of Go.
peYss LApY's BooK2 You never mention it" and we
should reply, .why sir, we don't receive it, and OF
course It is no longer issued"
But we have wandered entirely from the blooming
MAesoLa, which deserves the liberal support of the
whole South. Its contributors are among our most
talented and the work must fourish-we owe it to
ourselves,
we were much pleased with the remarks of Pu.
rtan, and more SO with the spirit in which they were
: met. E
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