The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-09-16
PRO SRECT us
or THE
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL.
OF EDUCATION AND Domestic INDUSTRY.
10 be published Ia Charleston, s. G.
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EDwiN HERIoT, EDIToR.
vuNHE subscriber proposes, as soon as his sub
- scription list, now in progress, will warrant
the undertaking, to publish, in this city, a b.
MoNTHLY JoukNAL, exclusively devoted to TIE
advancement OF the above objects. Its scope and
design are such 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 wi, no sre-
cal organ, devoted mainly to the advocacy of
their claims, and the record ofther joint progfs So
With the general diffusion of practical educati.,
among the people, their industrial prosperity mus,
naturally be placed more permanent basis
and the condition ofthe working classes in every
branch OF enterprise, proportionabIy 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, a plan by
which their interests eau lie made Identical d
mutually dependent. Trusting that the object
wiil'meet their appreciation, he will now proceed
to state the principles upon which il will be con-
Quoted.
To advocate, strictly and exclusively, Southern
Education-the encouragement Of our own Liter
airy institutions, and the publication OF Southern
School Books, edited, printed aud circulated in
the southern States--to bring into prominent no.
!Ice all literary undertakings, Books and Period
'cas, Colleges and Schools, at the South-to dis.
courage Northern agents, and their School Books,
ana expose, IN all their deformity and duplicity,
the pernlcious doctrines Of Abolition and Hostility
to the South, which they have so long been per-
united TO instl 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 VI lille awarding
all de n Ofher ~ al.
be the aim OF this Journal to promote, more es-
pecIay, those which most decidedly pracfica.
and best adapted 10 the active business Of life
Essays on all subjects connected with Educator
Reviews of all School Books and literary work.
published at the South--Reporis of Teacte ere
Conventions, or extracts from ihem-of CoIIeg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before it
cary Societies--and Of the progress Of lnw ~ I'D
zeal, military and free schools at the South H.
constitute the main features of this division c. r.
work.
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
tended notices of the progress Of THE MECHANIC
ARTS AND MANUFACTURES, as well as all ether
branches of industry--of Factories and Work
shops, for the production Of every article Of do
msstc consumption use, among us-and of
new inventlone, Improvements, models, and de-
signs IN mechanism and the fine Arts-bringing
into notice the names, qualifications and localities
of our own mechanics and amateurs: II cir
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 HoME JOURNAL will cor
tain AZ pages, octave, bimontiIy, and Furnished
TO subscribers and others at So per annum, or
copies for 5-payabk al The end of the roiume, OF
IN proportion, on the delivery Of numbers, IA;
cents, and less by the quantity. The insertion
full notices Of new enterprises, &C., in each nun
Der, will make IL the interest of those concerned r
them TO secure as many copies possible, for cir
culatlon among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, "TiE HOME JOURNAL" will make
no promises or pretensons. Not entering the
lists for competition with any, and standing in
the way of none, its legitimate sphere and aim will
be to promote the interests Of a--recognizng nc
party, in education or politics, but the party OF
the South, it will seek to preserve the Union of
the South, by developing her resources and slim
ulaing the industry of her people.
April ~, 185I--tf