The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-06-10
PRO SP ECTUS
or THE
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL
of EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
70 DC published Ia Charleston, s. C..
EDWIN HEmor, Ep,roa. N

10 be published Ia Charleston, s. C..
EDWIN HEmor, Ep,roR
VIE subscriber proposes, soon ss his sub
Il scripuon list, now in progress, will warrant
The undertaking, 10 publish, In this civ a RI,
MONTHLY JOURNAL, exclusively devoted 10 the
advancement Of the above objects. liza scone and
design are such will moi interfere with those ~
any other publication now in existence .at an,
South. In every other department of Periodical
Literature, We are well supplied with abIy-edted
and wecond Quoted Journals. The interests Of
Southern Education and Home Industry which
are indissolubiy connected, have, aa /, no 5 e.
cial organ, devoted r.ainly to the ndyocacy OF
their claims, and the record cir JOINT progress
With the general diffusion OF ,. sr,ical educarl
among the people, their industrial prosperity mus,
naturally be placed ON more permanent basis
and The condition ofthe working classes, in everY
branch OF enterprise, proportionaby elevated aud
improved. IL il in accordance with these views.
that the undersigned submits, with confidence, 10
the consideration of those who feei interested IN
both or either of these great causes, a plan by
which their interests he made identical and
mutually dependent. Trusting that the object
will meet their appreciation, he will now proceed
to STATE The principles upon which il will be con
Quoted
To advocate, strictly and exclusively, Southern
Educaiion--the encouragement Of our own Liter
airy Institutions, and the publication OF Southern
School Books, edited, printed and circulated in
the Southern States--to bring into prominent
tice all literary undertakings Books and Period
icals, Colleges and Schools, at the South-to dis
| courage Northern agents, and their School Books,
and expose, IN all their deiormity and dupIicity,
the pernicious doctrines of Abolition and Hostility
to the South, which they have 30 long been per-
mltied To instii into the minds Of our children
will be the constant and unceasng aim Of this de-
| parlment of the work. and, for this purpose, the
| Editor, with the assistance of ready contributors
has abundant facilities at hand. " lille awarding
all due merit To other systems OF education, il will
be the aim OF this Journal to promote, more es-
pecally, those which are most decidedly pracfico,
and best adapted TO the active business Of life
| Essays on all subjects connected with Educator
Reviews Of all School Books and literary work,
publis, ed at the South-Reporis Of Teachers
Conventions, or extracts from them-of CoIleg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses befors I il
esary Soceties--and of the progress oflaw ~ cd
zeal military and free schools at the South viii
constitute the main features of this division C.. ,,
work.
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
tended notices OF the progress Of THE MrCHAKI-
ARTS AND MANUFACTURES, as well as all ether
branches of iDdustry-of Factories and Work
shops, for the production Of every article of do
mest;c consumption or use, among us--and of
new inventions, improvements, models, and de-
signa IN mechanism and the fine Arts--hringing
into notice the names qualifications and localities
of our own mechanics and amateurs: IT. cir
! achievements, and rewards Of merit received at
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all topics connected with these matters: Reporta
Of Southern Industrial Institutes, and statistical
facts relating to their progress.
| Each number of the HOME JOURNAL will con-
tain AZ pages, octave, bimontLy, and furnished
to subscribers and others at ~ per nnnum, or 10
copies for S5payabie at the end of the polume, or
in proportion, on the delivery o. numbers, Is,
cents, and less by the quantity. The insertion o
full notices Of new enterprises, &C., in each num-
Der, will make ii the interest of those concerned in
them to secure many copies possible, for cir
cuntion among their friends and patrons
Beyond this, ''Ti HOME JOURNAL" will MAKE
no promises or pretensons. Not entering The
lists for competition with any, and standing in
the way ofnone, its legitimate sphere and aim will
be to promote the interests of a--recognizing no
party, in education or politics, but the party of
the South, 1t will seek to preserve the Union of
the South, by developing her resources and slim
ulating the industry of her people.
April -, ls5l--tf