ABSTRACT
Through no more appropriate channel can people convey their thoughts upon the subject they have selected, than through the columns of a periodical devoted to the South, and to the maintenance of her literature and institutions. And if there should be found anything of force in what people shall urge, they could ardently hope that the seeds thus sown in diffidence and weakness, might, under the skilful culture of abler minds, germinate and grow to a tree bearing useful fruit. With the great moral force of literature overturn the unholy citadel erected by the slander, fanaticism, and malignity of people's enemies, from whose unconsecrated towers, arrows steeped in the poison of falsehood and infamous libel, are shot at the institutions. The voice of the statesman and orator cannot reach the masses, with whom lie the issues of life and death.
