The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-10-04
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SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL
or EDUCATION AND Domestic INDUSTRY.
To BE- published ~ Charleston, s. c.
EDwiN HERlor, EDuroR.

EDwiN HERIor, EDlloR.
ME subscriber proposes, as soon his sui
- scrption Hat, now IN progress, will warrant
the undertaking, 20 publish. ~ this city. Bs
MONTHLY JOURNAL, exclusively devoted to the
advancement Of the above objects. It's scope he
design are such cs 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-edite
and well-couducted Journals. The interests o
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
are indsssolubly 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 practica educato
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, proportionably 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 ID
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
Educaiion--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
icais, Colleges and Schools, at the South--to dis
courage Northern agents, and their School Books
and expose, in all their deformity and duplicity,
the pernlcous doctrines Of Abolition and hostility
TO the South, which they have so long been per-
mltted 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,
has abundant facilities at hand. " lille awarding
all due merit to other systems Of education, it will
be the ann OF this Journal to promote, more es-
pecInlly, those which most decidedly p,actica,
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--Reporls of Teach ersg
Conventions, or extracts from them--of Colleg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before L it
erary Societies-and OF the progress @ flaw N cd
ica, military and free schools at the South vii
constitute the main features Of this division C.. ka
work
| The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
| tended notices OF the progress of THE MECHANIC
AIRS AND MANUFAcruREs, as well as all ether
branches of industry--of Factories and Work
shops, for the production Of every article of do
mestc consumption or use, among us--and of
new inventions, improvements, models, and de-
signs in mechanism and the fine Arts-bringing
INTO notice the names, qualifications and localities
| or 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 HONE JOURNAL will cor
tain AZ pages, octave, b-monthly, and Furnished
to subscribers and others at 81 per annum, or
copies for S!5payable at the end of the uoln,e Oh
in proportion, on the delivery Of numbers, lSi
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 IT,
them to secure as many copies as possible, for cir
culation among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, "TEE HOME JOURNAL" will make
no promises or pretensons. Not entering the
lists for competition with any, and standing in
the way ofnone, 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, 1t will seek to preserve the Union Of
the South, by developing her resources and slim
ulating the industry of her people.
April ~. lS5l--tf