The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-11-08
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SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL

OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
TO be published ~ Chartssson. S. C.
EDWIN HERIor, EDIroR.
NHE subscriber proposes, as soon his SUBJ
II scrpiion list, now in progress, will warrant
the undertaking, to publish in this city,
MONTHLY JOURNAL, exclusively devoted to the
advancement Of the above objects. Its scope and
design are such will interfere with those OF
any other publication now in existence at the
South. In every other department ofPeriodical
Literature, We are well supplied with ably-sdits
and well-conducted Journals. The interests
Southern Education and Home Industry whicl
are indissolubly connected, have, as yet, no spe-
cial organ, devoted mainly to the advocacy OF
their claims, and the record ofther joint progress
With the general diffusion of practical educatic
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 anl
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 can be made Identical I'D
mutually dependent. Trusting that the object
will.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 publication OF Southern
School Books, edited, printed and circulated in
the Southern States--to bring into prominent no.
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 deformity and Implicitly,
the pernicious doctrines Of Abolition and hostility
to the South, which they have so long been per-
mitted to insti into the minds of our children
Will be the constant and unceasng aim of this de-
nd fOr
Editor, with the assistance of ready contributors,
has abundant facilities at hand. " lille awarding
all due merit to other systems Of cducaon it will
be the aim OF this Journal to promote, more e.
pecially, those which most decidedly practice.
and best adapted to the active business Of life
Essays on all subjects connected with Educator
Reviews Of all School Books and literary work
publish ed at the South-Repors of Teach ers,
Conventions, or extracts from them-of CoIleg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before L it
erary Societies-and OF the progress flaw N cd
zeal, military and free schools at the South vii
constitute the main features Of this division c. h
work.
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
tended notices of the progress Of THE MECHANIC
ARrs AND MANUFACTURES, as well as all cther
branches of industry-of Factories and Work
shops, for the production Of every article Of do
mestic consumption use, among us--and of
new Inventions, improvements, models, and de-
Signs III ucCuhutbIn anu tue inc hTlS-DTlDSlnS
into notice the names. qualifications and localities
Of our own mechanics and amateurs: tt cir
achievements, and rewards of merit received at
public exhibitions. 1t will also contain essays or
all topics contested with these matters; Reports
Of Southern Industrial Institutes, and statstica
facts relating to their progress.
Each number Of the HOME JOURNAL will cor.
tain 40 pages, octave, DI-monthly, and furnished
to subscribers and others at 80 per annum, or
copies for Sl5payable at the end Of the volume, OF
in proportion, on the delivery Of numbers, 49,
cents, and less by the quantity. The nsertionc
full notices of new enterprises, &C., in each nun
ber will make IL the interest of those concernedir
them to secure many copies as possible, for cir
culation among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, CITE HOME JOURNAL" will make
no promises or pretensions. 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 all-recognizing no
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
ulating the industry of her people.
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