The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-22
PROS PECTUS
~'t OF THE
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL.


TO be published IN Charleston, s. C..
EDWIN HEnror, EDiroR.
VuNll T. subscriber proposes, az soon as his sui
II scrpon list now in progress, will warrant
the undertaking, to publish, in this city, Ri
MosrHLr JouRnAL, exclusively devoted to the
advancement of the above objects. Its scope and
design are such rs will not interfere with those Of
any other publication now in existence at the
South. In every other department of Periodical
Literature, We are well supplied with ably edited
and well-conducted Journals. The interests of
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
are indissolubly connected, have, as yet, no spe-
clai organ, devoted mainly TO the advocacy of
their claims, and the record ofther Joint progress
With the general diffusion Of practical educatio
among the people, their industrial prosperity must
naturally be placed on more permanent basis
and the condition ofthe working classes, in every
branch OF enterprise, proportonably elevated and
improved. II is in accordance with these views,
that the undersigned submits, with confidence, to
the consideration OF those who feel interested in
both or either of these great causes, plan by
which their interests can be made identical and
mutually dependent. Trusting that the object
wiil'meet their appreciation, he will now proceed
to state the principles upon which it will be con-
Quoted.
To advocate, strictly and exclusively, Southern
Education-the encouragement Of our own Liter
airy Institutions, and the publications OF Southern
'.~""o' A,O""'t eui'cu, 1iutcu CIECuIdicu III
the Southern States-to bring into prominent no
tice all literary undertakings, Books and Period.
icas, Colleges and Schools, ut the South--to dis
courage Northern agents. and their School Books,
and expose, in all their deformity and duplicity,
the pernicious doctrines Of Abolition and hostility
to the South, which they have so long been per-
mitted to inst into the minds of our children
will be the constant and unceasing aim Of this de-
partment 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-
pecially, those which are most decidedly practca.
and best adapted TO the active business Of life
Essays on all subjects connected with Educaicr
Reviews ofalI School Books and literary wo.ks
published at the South--Reporls of Tesctersi
Conventions, or extracts from them-of CoIIeg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before its
egury Societiea-nnd OF the progress o f law ~ ell
ical, military and free schools at the South viii
constitute the main features of this division C. IA
work.
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
tended notices of the progress OF THE MECHANIC
ARTS AND MANUFACTURES, as well ms all ether
branches of industry-of Factories and Work
shops, for the production of every article of do
mestc consumption or use, among us-and nf
new Inventions, improvements, models, and de-
signs IN mechanism and the fine Arts--bringng
INTO notice the names. qualifications and localities
achievements. and rewards of merit received ut
public exhibitions. II will also contain essays on
all topics connected with these matters; Reports
of Southern Industrial Institutes, and statistical
facts relating to their progress.
Each number of the Honr JOURNAL will COR
tam AZ pages octave, bi-monthly, and Furnished
to subscribers and others at ~ per annum, or
copies for sl5-payabk at The end ofthe poiupe, or
IN proportion, on the delivery of numbers, las
cents, and less by the quantity. The insertion
full notices Of new enterprises, &C., in each mum
Der, Will make it the interest of those concerned H.
them to secure ms many copies possible, for cir
culaiion among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, "ThE 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 all-recognizng no
party, IN education or politics, but the party Of
the South, II will seek to preserve the Union Of
the South, by developing her resources and slim
ula,ing the industry Of her people.
April 10, 1S5I--tf