The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1866-12-14
The Southern Review.

We call the attention of our readers to the fol-
lowing notice of an extract from the Prospectus
of the 'Southern Repiep."
Col. John Carroll Walsh is gratuitous agent
for the same in this county, and will be pleased
to receive the subscriptions of those favorable to
the object which the Reuiew is intended to pro-
mote. Subscribers names will be received at
this office:
/ A Quarterly to be called The Southern Reyiew
will be regularly issued in Baltimore from and
| after January l, 1867. The Rerie,o will be ed-
ted by Albert Taylor Bledsoe, L. D., one of
the profoundest thinkers, most vigorous writer's
and ablest scholars Of the South. AS lawyer,
a mathematician linguist and man of letters
he is surpassed by few in any country. The
contributors to the RevieW, are all gentlemen of
high scientific and literary attainments. The
first articles of the ReUieW are now in press, and
No. l will make its appearance punctuay on the
first Of January. The scope and aim of this
Southern Quarterly are too well expressed in the
Prospectus to be improved by any abridgement
! of our own, We therefore take from it the fol-
lowing extract in Professor Bledsoe's own words
This Review will be devoted to the South. In
seeking, however, to secure the rights and to
promote the interests of the South no injury will
be intended to any other section of the country
1t will on the contrary, be the great object of the
ReOieW to advance the prosperity and glory of all
sections, by opposing everywhere, and on all oc-
casions, the practice of injustice and wrong
lfany portion of the world ever needed such
an organ, it is the despised, the DISTINGUISHED and
lite down trodden people of the South. Hence,
among her friends, there are men of learning and
genius, who will gladly contribute the splen-
did labors their brain to the pages of Tile South
ern Review. The service off corps of such wri-
tiers have indeed, already been secured, and 9TH
ers will, no doubt, be induced to enlist in the
great cause to which the Review is dedicated.
The best means Of promoting the financial, the
industrial, the economical, the intellectual, tho
moral, and the social well-being of the South,
are among the momentous questions, demanding
the earnest reflections and the wisest counsels of
all her friends, which will be deliberately and
fully discussed in the Review.
The great subject of Southern education
will, also, form prominent topic of discussion.
The people of the South have already resolved
that our school books. and our teachers, shall
no longer be imported from abroad that the
minds of our sons and daughters shall be moul-
died. and their thoughts directed, by our own
thinkers and scholars. But how shall all this be
accomplished? How shall the capacity of the
South 10 produce her own school-books and
teachers be reused to successful acton2 How
shall her powers of thought be developed, and
set to work in the production of q science, a lit
erature, and II philosophy of her own which
shall, in due time, challenge and command the
admiration of the civilized word2 Upon the
manner in which these subjects are dealt with,
the glory of the South must, as every thinking
man is perfectly aware, necessarily depend, and
it is precisely upon these subjects that Tile SoutA-
erm Rerisp is particularly DESTROYS of being
heard.
Nor will the causes and the consequences Of
the war be ignored in its pages. For, until these
are comprehended, the future must remain yelled
from our eyes, nay, the past itself must continue
to be grievousy misunderstood 'Tfany history
be useful to those who manage republics" says
Machiavei, "it is that which exhibits the causes
of discord and divisions"
WHAT these causes are, and how they have
worked in our history, is still a mystery to the
people. The mists of prejudice and passion,
raised by the arts of wicked race of dema.
gogues and decevers, have concealed these terri
BILE secrets from their eyes and consequently the
true remedy for the evils under which they them
selves have been made to groan. These causes
are, indeed, only known to that obscure diligence
which has sought for truth, not in the noisy TO-
rum of politics, but in the silent records of the
country, by long years of patient study and pro-
tracted meditation.