The southern press., 1851-07-07
p r o s p &c T u s
OF THE
OUTHERN HOME JOURNAL
OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
To be Pssbliahed in CharIeston, s. C..
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OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
TO Be Pssbliahed in CharIeston, s. C..
EDWIN HERIor, EDITOR.
NHE subscriber proposes, as soon as his sub
IL scrption list, now in progress, will warrant
the undertaking, to publish 10 this city, BIZ
MONTHLY JOURNAL, exclusively devoted TO the
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 yet, no spe-
cial organ, devoted mainly to the advocacy Of
their claims, and the record oftheir Joint progress
With the general diffusion of practical educatio
among the people, their industrial prosperity must
naturally be placed on a more permanent basis
and the condition ofthe working classes, in every
branch OF enterprise, proportionably 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 be made identical and
mutually dependent. Trusting thSt 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
Educaiion--the encouragement Of our own Liter
ary Institutions, and the publication OF Southern
School Books, edited, printed and circulated in
the Southern States-to bring into prominent no
lce all literary undertakings, Books and Period
cals, Colleges and Schools, at 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-
mltted to instil 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 wi fhH spra NJ ad, optr, ,hut
has abundant facilities at hand. W hiIe awarding
all due merit to other systems Of education, it will
be the aim OF this Journal to promote, more ea-
pecially, those which are most decidedly praciieo.
and best adapted to the active business Of life
Essays on all subjects connected with Educatisr
Reviews Of all School Books and literary wo-h
published at the South-Reports Of Teachers
Conventions, or extracts from them-of Coleg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before it,
erary Societies-and Of the progress flaw m cd
ical, military and free schools at the South wk
constitute the main features Of this division ks
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
chops, for the production Of every article Of do
mest'c consumption or use, among us--and of
new inventions, improvements, models, and de-
signs IN mechanism and the fine Arts-brineine
mto hotice the names, quhlincatons ana localities
of our own mechanics and amateurs: II air
achievements, and rewards Of merit received at
public exhibitions. II will also contain essavs on
all topics connected with these matters: Renorts
Of Southern Industrial institutes, and statisticsI
facts relating to their progress.
Each number Of the HoME JouaxAx wfll cor
tain 48 pages, octave, bi-monthly. and Furnished
to subscribers and others at ~ Per annum, or
copies for tl5Psyabie st ~ s~d n ~ ssssme on
in proportion, on the delivery Of numbers ls;
cents, and less by the quantity. The ipnr l6no Q
full notices Of new enterprises, do. 49, ..y mum
ber, will make it the interest Of thos3 3c5csrnedin in
them to secure al many copies a. possible for cir
cu'ation among their friends and patrons
Beyond this, "TRE HomE JouRnAr " will make
no promises or pretensions. No, entering the
lists for composition with any, and standing in
the way ofnone, it, legitimate sphere and aim will
he 70 promote the interests of fall--recognixing 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 stim-
ulating the industry Of her people.
April IL, 1851-tf