"The objects you have undertaken to accomplish, and which, judging from
your prospectus and the character the public have given of your paper
and yourself, will most certainly be attained, are highly meritorious
and praiseworthy. Such a periodical has been long desired at the south,
whose literary reputation is far inferior to that of the north--to
awaken the dormant faculties--to arouse the ambition, and direct and
concentrate the energies of a people, whose abilities are _at least
equal_ to those of any class of men on earth. Incitement is all that is
wished, and your paper, southern in its principles, and established in
a southern city, will produce it, if any thing can. Capacity it is well
known is not deficient. Only bring it fairly into play, and your
columns will, and a hundred such would be filled with the most valuable
matter--with the most finished efforts in every branch of literature."