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PROSPECTUS OF THE SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER. This is a monthly Magazine, devoted chiefly to LITERATURE, but occasionally finding room also for articles that fall within the scope of SCIENCE; and professing no disdain of tasteful selections, though its matter has been, as it will continue to be, in the main, original. Party Politics and controversial Theology, as far as possible, are jealously excluded. They are sometimes so blended with discussions in literature or in moral science, otherwise unobjectionable, as to gain admittance for the sake of the more valuable matter to which they adhere: but whenever that happens, they are incidental, only; not primary. They are dress, tolerated only because it cannot well be severed from the sterling ore wherewith it is incorporated. REVIEWS, and CRITICAL NOTICES, Occupy their due space in the work: and it is the Editor's aim that they should have a threefold tendency-to convey, in a condensed form, such valuable truths or interesting incidents as are embodied in the works reviewed,-to direct the reader's attention to books that deserve to be read,-and to warn him against wasting time and money upon that large number, which merit only to be burned. In this age of publications, that by their variety and multitude distract and overwhelm every undiscriminating student, IMPARTIAL CRITICISM, governed by the views just mentioned, is one of the most inestimable and indispensable of auxiliaries, to him who does wish to discriminate. ESSAYS, and TALES, having in view utility or amusement, or both-HISTORICAL SKETCHES-and REMINISCENCES of events too minute for History, yet elucidating it, and heightening its interest,-may be regarded as forming the staple of the work. And of indigenous POETRY, enough is publishedsometimes of no mean strain-to manifest and to cultivate the growing poetical taste and talents of our country. The times appear, for several reasons, to demand such a work-and not one alone, but many. The public mind is feverish and irritated still, from recent political strifes:-The soft, assuasive influence of Literature is needed, to allay that fever, and soothe that irritation. Vice and folly are rioting abroad:-They should be driven by indignant rebuke, or lashed by ridicule, into their fitting haunts. Ignorance lords it over an immense proportion of our people:-Every spring should be set in motion, to arouse the enlightened, and to increase their number; so that the great enemy of popular government may no longer brood, like a portentous cloud, over the destinies of our country. And to accomplish all these ends, what more powerful agent can be employed, than a periodical, on the plan of the Messenger; if that plan be but carried out in practice? The SOUTH peculiarly requires such an agent. In all the Union, south of Washington, there are but two Literary periodicals! Northward of that city, there are probably at least twenty-five or thirty! Is this contrast justified by the wealth, the leisure, the native talent, or the actual literary taste, of the Southern people, compared with those of the Northern? No: for in wealth, talents, and taste, we may justly claim at least an equality with our brethren; and a domestic institution exclusively our own, beyond all doubt affords us if we choose, twice the leisure for reading and writing, which they enjoy. It was from a deep sense of this local want, that the word SOUTHERN was engrafted on the name of this periodical: and not with any design to nourish local prejudices, or to advocate supposed local interests. Far from any such thought, it is the Editor's fervent wish, to see the North and South bound endearingly together forever, in the silken bands of mutual kindness and affection. Far from meditating hostility to the north, he has already drawn, and he hopes hereafter to draw, much of his choicest matter thence: and happy indeed will he deem himself, should his pages, by making each region know the other better, contribute in any essential degree to dispel forever the lowering clouds that so lately threatened the peace of both, and to brighten and strengthen the sacred ties of fraternal love. The SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER has now commenced its NINTH VOLUME, and NINTE YEAR. How far it has acted out the ideas here uttered, is not for the Editor to say. He believes, however, that it falls not further short of them, than human weakness usually makes Practice fall short of Theory. CONDITIONS OF SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER. 1. 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The readers of the Messenger will learn, we doubt not, with sincere regret, that its late Editor and proprietor, THOMAS W. WHITE, is no more!-He died on the 19th of January, in the 55th year of his age, and is now, we fervently hope, reaping the reward of a virtuous and well-spent life in a better world. On a visit to New-York in September last, he was suddenly, at the supper table of the Astor-House, whilst conversing familiarly with a friend, struck with paralysis, and from that time until the day of his death, hopes were entertained, in the midst of fears, that he might possibly be restored to health and usefulness. These hopes were delusive!-The destroyer came in a most unexpected moment, and summoned our amiable and excellent friend, to another and more enduring state of being. The writer of this brief obituary notice, knew Mr. WHITE long and well. He was in truth, all circumstances considered, a remarkable man. From his childhood he had to struggle with adversity; and, like Franklin, with no other but a self-taught education, he was thrown into the same calling, that of a printer's apprentice, with that illustrious sage. With no pretensions to literature, as a classical or critical profession, he nevertheless possessed a singular tact and discernment which enabled him to distinguish the true and beautiful from what was false or deformed in taste, or vicious and defective in morals. With a strange disinclination to write for his own popular Magazine-he curiously combined a happy facility and nervous energy in epistolary correspondence. The writer has seen and received many of his letters, which abounded in vigorous thoughts, clothed in eloquent language; resembling the unsophisticated strains in which woman-even uneducated woman, will often express her emotions without regard to the mere formularies of style. He wrote from the abundance of a sound heart and generous feelings, and not having the fear of critical inspection before his eyes, he was of course less the compositor of art, than the interpreter of nature. But Mr. WHITE's great forte perhaps, consisted in an indomitable energy and perseverance of character, which overcame all obstacles, in the pursuit of an object, recommended to him by the dictates of the understanding, and the impulses of the heart. Such an object was the establishment of the Southern Literary Mes VOL. IX-9 NO. 2. senger under circumstances peculiarly unpropitious, and which, to most persons, would have seemed almost insurmountable. The North and East had long pre-occupied the ground of periodical literature, and the South was already strown with the wrecks of ill-fated adventure in that unprofitable enterprise. Virginia, with all her power, population and resources-and with all her reputation for statesmanship, forensic ability and unsurpassed oratory, had never been able to sustain a paper exclusively scientific or literary. These weighty considerations would have deterred the majority of men, but had no influence in damping the courage or ardor of our deceased friend. With scanty funds-and with no family or other influence to aid him,on the contrary, with a host of private advisers to discourage the effort,--he, nevertheless, with the countenance and agency of one or two chosen friends, resolved on the experiment. He made it and was successful!-From small and modest beginnings, the Messenger has gradually planted itself over a wide surface of our country-and without boasting,-if we regard the extent of its patronage or the opinions of the contemporary press, it may be justly ranked in the very first class of similar publications in our country. In the private relations of life, Mr. WHITE was as free from censure as falls to the lot of ordinary mortals. If he was at times irritable, it was more the imperfection of the physical than the moral man. His heart was kind, his friendship ever true and faithful-and his hand "open as day to melting charity." The Reverend Dr. Plumer, Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Richmond, who preached his funeral sermon (and an eloquent sermon it was,) said most truly of him, that he scarcely ever knew a man so devoid of malignity of heart. In the knowledge of the writer of this poor tribute,charity, benevolence and philanthrophy, were among the beautiful characteristics of the deceased. He was perfectly forgiving even to those whom he had just grounds to suppose had injured him, and if those who so truly forgive, are entitled by Divine Promise to forgiveness themselves, may we not hope every thing of our departed friend in that dread eternity to which he has been called. In the circle of domestic love, Mr. WHITE's affections were ardent and powerful. He had been a widower for some years, but left several daughters, married and single, who will long bemoan the loss of a kind and affectionate father and friend. |