Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1864-05-20
PROSPECTUS
OF
IT FL II a G. H.
"A Southern Monthly Magazine.


THE undersigned will commences in the City Of
- Richmond. early in January. the publication
efaAonthly Magazine, under the above title.
II will present to its readers selections from the
pest European Periodicals. OF Literary and Scien-
ft6c Articls, Of Novels, Tales aud Sketches which
having already received the lmprimature of an en-
liRhtened taste, cannot but prove acceptable to
4hc Southern public. The effort will be MADE to
able abreast Of the literary progress of the age
Arrangements hare been made which, il is hoped
viii enable the Proprietors to secure this end.
The Magazine will also present original articles
from our best writer's, in all Department., and Q
special aim OF the Proprietors OF this periodical
will be to foster Southern authorship by offering
m adequste and renunerative field for its exer-
else. They will NJ t, however, under the plea of
this design encourage, by reproduction in its col
snns, that class Of compositions which create
vapid and unhealthy taste. to be stated only by
Il at hybrid literature which Yankee ingenuity
has coutriyed, under the name If sensational ro-
nance.
The Industrial Resources and the Educational
Interest Of the Confeperacy-ihet twin foundations
It all true independense-wil receive the impOr-
tant share OF attention they deserve In the de-
velopment Of these questions its object will be to
make practical application OF the doctrine OF
States Rights TO the yolicy Of the country 1t will
endeavor to explan the mission OF the Confederacy,
which ls to demonstrate liberty regulated by law,
to exhibitA system Of States, each supreme with
Ia its foundation, and only bound by o voluntary
alienation of powers. 1t will vindicate those ele-
saents of National independence Itch are secur-
ed by high standard of intelgence and rofae-
mont, by accumulated capital. varied industry
and ny abundant facilities ofintercommunic
II will promote the adoption Of all those measures
40 which the Confederate States are nov deficient.
And, whilst the Constitution of the Confederate
States forbds the General Government to organ
IKE and operate enterprises OF nature calculated
10 attain these results, the projectors will consider
1t their duty to urge upon the States the develop
ment of interests 50 indispensable to the national
welfare. 1t it 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 a common head will be avoided.
The various depa tments ofliterature to which
Ae Magazine will be devoted, may be named as
fbllows:
l. ESSAYS, original and selected political, Lit
eraey and Scientific, and Biographical Sketches.
,. Novels, Tales and Sketches, original and Sc
lected.
s. Reviews Of books.
4. Educational Essays and News.
B. Notices of the progress Of Science and Art.
the fourth section it is the design to afford to
Teachers information needed in their profession,
and fisd for the interchange Of ideas that sub
Iect. t. which end, their assistance and collabora-
non Is invited. Southern School Books will be no.
tced and reviewed; and the Southern system Of
Mdacation as opposed to New England empiricism
and practcaiism, 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. lei Main Street
ERNEST LAGAKDE & CO.,
Proprietsrs.
VIZ. u. BuRwsLL.
Chief Editor.
ERNEST LaGRADB,
Associate Editor.
January 81, 1884.