Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1864-02-26
PROSPECTUS
OF
Err Ell Il a & EE-7'
a Southern Monthly Magazine

THE undersigned will commences in the City o.
il Richmond, early in January. the publication
ef Monthly Magazine, under the above title.
Tt will present to its readers selections from the
hest EI1rapean Periodicals of Literary and Scien-
tifc Artcls, OF Novels, Tales aud Sketches. which
having already received the lnprimature ofan en-
frightened taste, cannot but prove acceptable to
the Southern public The effort will be maue to
keep the reeders of the Magazine nearly as pcs
sible abreast of the literary progress OF The age
Arran gements have been made which, it Is hoped
will enable the Proprietors to secure this end.
The Magazine will also present original articles
from our best writer's, in all departments, and q
special aim Of the Proprietors of this periodical
will be to foster Southern authorship by offering
an adequate and remunerative 6eldafor its exer-
else. They will net. however, under the plea OF
this design, encourage, by reproduction in its col
umns, that class of compositions which create a
vapfd and unhealthy taste, to be stated only by
tt at hybrid literature which Yankee ingenuity
has contriyed, under the name IF sensational ro
nance.
The Industrial Resources and the Educational
Interest of the Confeperacy-,he twin foundations
Ct all true indenendence-wll receive the impor-
share of attention they deserve In the de-
yelopment of these questions, its object win - T"
make practical application OF the doctrine OF
States Rights to the yolcy of the country. 1t will
endeaEorsto explain the mission f.he Coniederacy,
which is to demonstrate liberty regulated by law,
to exhibit system of States, each supreme with
in its foundation, and only bound by voluntary
alienetion of powers. 1t will vindicate those eie-
ment5 of National independence, which are secur-
ed by high standard of intelligence and rehne-
ment, by accumulated capital, varied industry
and by abundant facilities ofintercommunicat ton.
1t viii promote the adoption of all those measures.
in which the Confederate States are nor deficient.
And, whilst the Constitution of the Confederate
States forbids the General Government to organ
IKE and operate enterprises OF nature calculated
to attain these results, the projectors will consider
It their duty to urge upon the States the develop
ment of interests indispensable te the national
Welfare 1t is thus that through the aggregate
ability of the separate States, the power of the
Confederate States will be made manifest. 1t is
thus that the collision of sectional interest and the
oppression of common head will be avoided.
The various departments ofliterature to which
The Magazine will be devoted, may be named as
follows:
l. ESSAYS original and selected political, Lit
eracy and Scientific aud Biographical Sketches.
2. Novels, Tales and Sketches. original and Sc
lected.
8. Reviews of books.
4. Educational Essays and News.
s, Notices of the progress of science and Art.
In the fourth section, it is the design to afford to
Teachers information needed in their profession,
and field for the ir terchaage of ideas on that SUBJ
ject, to which end, their assistance and colabora-
ton is invited. Southern School Books will be no.
tced and reviewed. and the Southern system of
Education opposed to New England enpiricism
and practicalsm, upheld, developed and defended.
TERMS Each numoer 81 SO. For three
month 81. For six months So.
The trade will be supplied by GEO. L. BID
GOODS, !el Main Street
ERNEST LAGARDE CO.,
Proprietor,.
VIZ. NJ. BuRwErL.
Chief Editor.
EeNFFs--- ..AtRaDs.
Associate Editor.
January %, lse4.