Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1864-02-19
PROSE- ECT'US
1.rTs II - "a G. y
a Southern Monthly Nc agazine

TIME undersigned viii CONNIE nce in the City OF
t | Richmond early in January. the publication
of a Monthly Magazine, under the above title.
Re will present to its readers selections from the
hest European Periodicals. OF Literary and Scien-
ti6c Articls, Of Novels, Tales aud Sketches, which
having already received the lnprimature of en-
liohtened taste, cannot but prove acceptable to
the Southern public. The effort will be ma.e to
keen the reeders of the Magazine nearly pes
sible abreast Of theliterary progress OF the age.
Arranp ements 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 writers, in all departments, and a
special aim of the Proprietors Of this periodical
will be to foster Southern authorship by Offering
an adequate and remunerative field for its exer-
I else. They viii net. however, under the plea of
this design, encourage, by reproduction in its col
umns, that class OF compositions which create a
vapd and unhealthy taste, to be stated only by
IL at hybrid literature which Yankee ingenuity
has contrived, under the name tf sensational ro-
nance.
| The industrial Resources and the Educational
Interest Of the Confeperacy-the twin foundations
& all true independenee-w will receive the impOr-
tant share of attention they deserve. In the de-
veopment of these questions, It's object will be to
make practical application OF the doctrine OF
States Rights the yoficy of the country. 1t will
endeavor to explain the mission of the Conederacy
which is to demonstrate liberty regulated BY law,
I to exhibit system of States each supreme with
in its foundation, and only bound by voluntary
aIlenetl0n OF powers. 1T VIII FlHuicale those enc
ments OF National Independence, which are secur-
ed by lg. standard of intelligence and refine
ment, BY accumulated capital. varied Industry
and hy abundant facilities 0fintef recommendations
1t will promote the adoption of all those measures
in which the Confederate states no 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 resnls, the projectors will consider
1t their duty to urge upon the States the develop
ment of interests so inaispensableto the national
Welfare / 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 ofliteratuse to which
! The Magazine will be devoted, may be named as
! follows:
/ l. ESSAYS, original and selected political. Lit
eracy and Scientific, and Biographical Sketches
2. Novels, Tales and Sketches, original and Sc
/ lected z
/ 3. Reviews of books.
A. Educational Essays and News.
/ S. Notices OF the progress Of Sciencc and Art,
In the fourth section, it is the design to afford to
! Teachers information needed in their profession,
and field for the II tcrchaage Of ideas on that sub
ject, To which en1, their assistance ard colabora-
ton is invited. Southern School Books Will be no
| tced aud reviewed. and the Southern system of
Education as opposed to- New England enlpifieisrn
and practicasm, upheld, developed and defended
| tIEkMS :- Each nunfoer 81 30. For three
month ST.. For5a months S.
The trade will be supplied BY GEO. L. BID
| GOODS, I61 Main Street.
! ERNEST LAGAKDE& CO.,
| Proprictors.
WIZ NJ. BuRwaIr.
ST. Chief Editor. 80
.5 EsNKsf !sAGssnE,
Associate Editor.
Janpary22. 1854.
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