The southern press., 1851-09-02
PROSPEC ECTUS
or THE
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL
OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
To be published in Charleston, s. C. vi
EDWIN HERIoT, EpIroR.

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IuNHE subscriber proposes, soon his sub
u scription list, now in progress, will warrant
the undertaking, to publish, in this city,, BI
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 pubiicaton 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 indIssoluby connected, have, as yet, no spe-
cal organ, devoted mainly to the advocacy of
their claims, and the record oftheir joint progress
With the general diffusion of practical educatic
among the people, their industrial prosperity must
naturally be placed on more permanent basin
and the condition ofthe working classes, in every
branch OF enterprise, proportionabIy elevated and
improved. IL IL 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
will their appreciation, he will now proceed
to state the principles upon which it will be
Quoted. m
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 Stntes---to bring into prominent no.
tce 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 deformty and duplicity,
the pernicious doctrines Of Abolition and hostility
to the South, which they have 40 long been per-
mitted to instil into the minds of our children
will be the constant and unceasng aim of this de-
pnrtment of the work; and, for this purpose, the
Editor with the assistance Of ready contributors.
has abundant facilities at hand. While awarding
all due merit 10 other systems Of education, it will
be the aim OF this Journal to promote, more es-
| pecally, those which most decidedly pracfica:
and best adapted to the active business of life
Essays on all subjects connected with Educator
Reviews Of all School Books and literary work,
published at the South--Repors of Teach ersS
Conventions, or extracts from them-of Coeg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before il:
erary Soceties--and OF the progress flaw m cd
cal, military and free schools at the Soutt-wiL
constitute the main features of this division C.. ts
work. -
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace rx-
tended notices Of the progress of THE MECHANIC
ARrs AND MANUFACTURES, as well as all ether
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 In mechanism and the fine Arts-bringing
into notice the names qualifcst tons and localities
Of our own mechanics and amateurs IT, cir
achievements, and rewards Of merit received at
public exhibitions. 1t 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 JouRSAL will COR
tain 40 pages, octave, bi-monihly, and furnished
to subscribers and others at 80 per annum, or
copies for 5-pnyabie at the end Of the ro!sme, or
in proportion, on the delivery o. numbers, 49,
cents, and less by the quantity. The insertion
full notices Of new enterprises, &C., in each mum
ber will make IL the interest of those concerned ir
tbx r.
culnton among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, "TLE Homn JOURNAL" will make
promises pretensions. Not entering the
lists for competition with any, and standing in
the way of none, its legitimate sphere and will
be TO promote the interests of all---recognizng no
party, in education politics, but the party of
the South, it will seek to preserve the Union of
the South, by developing her resources and stim
uatng the industry Of her people.
April ~. 165I--tf