Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1864-05-06
PROSPECTUS
OF
IT Fl Il "A & H.
A Southern MONTHLY Magazine.

I'M undersigned will commence in the City OF
a Richmond. early In January. the publication
sfa Monthly Magazine, under the above title.
will present to its readers selections from the
best huroPeAn Periodicals. Of Literary and Scien-
fiho Arttcls, Of Novels. Tales aud Sketches. which
:hasfng &lready received the lmprimature of en-
Nghtened taste, cannotbut prove acceptable to
+he Southern public. The effort will be maze to
Stbie abreast of the literary progress of the age
Arrangements have been made which, it is hoped
viii 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
p9 ade9usts and renunerative field for its exer.
else. They will mt. however, under the plea Of
this dssgn encourage, BY reproduction in its col
anna, that GLASS of compositions which create.
rapid and unhealthy taste. to be stated only by
that hybrid literature which Yankee ingenuity
has contrived, hnaer the name 1t sensational ro-
nance.
The Industrial Resources and the Educational
Inherent of the COME peracy,he twin found tions
Of all true independence-will receive the impor-
tant share of attention they deserve. In the de-
velopment OF thesa quotations., Its object will be to
make practical application of the doctrine OF
States Eightsn the yolicy Of the country. 1t will
endeavor to expein the mission of the C0nederacy,
which is to demonstrate liberty regulated by law,
70 exhibit system of States each supreme with
in its foundation, ands only bound by a voluntary
alienetion of powers. 1t will vindcate those ele-
1nents of National independence itch are secur
ed by high standard of intelligence and refine
Snent, BY accumulated capital varied industry
and By abundant facilities ofintercommunicati ton.
Il will promote the ption Of all those measures
in which the Confederate States are no. deficient.
And, whilst the Constitution of the Confederate
States fUrbids the General Government to organ
Ike and operate enterprises OF nature calculated
TO attain these results, the projectors will consider
It their eEty 20 urge upon the States the develop
nent OF interests 50 Indispensable to the national
Relfare' 1t il thus that. through the aggregate
ability Of the separate States the power of the
Confederate States will be made manifest. 1t il
thus that the collision of sectional interest and the
oppression Of a common head will be avoided.
The ver.ors departments of literature to which
he Magazine will be devoted may be named az
follows:
\. Esszva. original and selected political. Lit
eracy and Scientific. ana Biographical Sketches.
T. Novels, Tales and Sketches, original and Sc
lec.ed.
g. Reviews of bonks
4. Educational Essays and News.
5, Notices of the progress of science and Art.
the fourth section 1t is the design to afford TO
Teachers information needed in their profession,
and Geld for the rterchaage of ideas on that SUBJ
jset, to wcS end. their assistance and collabora-
Ion is invited. S:'E:iiern School Books will be no.
riced and reviewed; and the Southern system Of
Edacation opposed to New England empirieism
and practcsfi.n, upheld, developed and defended,
TERMS Zach nuncar 81 So For three
zaonth 81. For six months So.
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