The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-05-03
PROSPE CTUS
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL
OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
Tn be D,ahIished II. ChnrIe aGoa, q
To be published in Charleston, S. c..
EDwfN HERIor. Enron.

10 DC pubIshed IN Chdrtcsf0n, >. T..
EDWIN HERIor, EDIroR.
TIME subscriber proposes, as soon as his sub
IL scrption list, now in progress, will warrant
the undertaking, to publish, in this city, b.
MONTHLY JOURNAL, exclusively devoted to the
advancement of the above objects. Its scope and
design 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 aby-edted
and well cor Quoted Journals. The interests of
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
are indissolubly connected, have, as yet, no spe-
cal organ, devoted mainly to the advocacy OF
their cIaims and the record ofther joint progress
With the general diffusion Of practical education
among the people, their industrial prosperity
naturally be placed on more permanent basis,
and the condition ofthe working classes, in every
branch OF enterprise, proportionably elevated and
improved 1t 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
will meet their appreciation, he will now procee1
to state the principles upon which 1t will be cod
Quoted.
To advocate, strictly and exclusively, Southern
Educafion-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.
ce 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 duplicity,
the pernicious doctrines Of Abolition and Hostility
to the South, which they have 80 long been per-
mitted to insti 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,
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all due merit to other systems Of education it will
be the aim OF this Journal to promote, more es-
pecialy, those which are most decidedly practical,
and best adapted to the active business of life.
Essays all subjects connected with Education
Reviews Of all School Books and literary works
publis! ed at the South-Reports of Teachers,
Conventions, or extracts from them--of College
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before Lit
e:nry Societies--and OF the progress of law, med
zeal, military and free schools at the South-will
constitute the main features of this division Of the
work.
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
tended notices Of the progress of THE MECHANIC
ARTS AND MANUFACTURER, as well as all other
branches Of industry--of Factories and Work
shops, for the production Of every article Of do
mestc consumption use among us-and NJ
new Inventions, 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: IT, cir
achievements, and rewards Of merit received al
public exhibitions Ii will ALEC 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 IomE JOURNAL will con
tain 4S pages, octave, bi-monthly, and furnished
to subscribers and others at 81 per annum, or II
copies for Sl5-paynbie al the end ofHe roiime, or
in proportion, on the delivery numbers, ISj
cents, and less by the quantity. The insertion o
full notices Of new enterprises, &c, in each mum
ber will make IL the interest Of those concerned in
them to many copies ms possible, for cir
cuaion among their friends and patrons
Beyond this, "Ti HoME youRNAL" will NAL {
no promises or pretensions. Not entering the
lists for competition with any, and sianding in
the way Of nome its legitimate ~ here and aim will
be to promote the interests Of all-recognizing no
party, in education politics, but the party OF
the South, it will feek to preserve the Union oi
the South, by developing her resources and slim
ulating the industry Of her people.
April 10, l85l---tf