An Appeal to the Legislature of Virginia in behalf of the Colonial History of Virginia; containing a proposition to procure materials from England for ... From the "Southern Literary Messenger.".
(Title: An Appeal to the Legislature of Virginia in behalf...)
Title: An Appeal to the Legislature of Virginia in behalf of the Colonial History of Virginia; containing a proposition to procure materials from England for the completion of said history. From the "Southern Literary Messenger.".
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Minor, Benjamin Blake;
1844.
8º.
9603.e.53.
The Southern Literary Messenger: 1834-1864 (Classic Reprint)
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The long life of The Southern Literary M essen ger, the honorable position which it attained and the salutary influence it exerted, not only upon Southern but American Literature, entitled it, in the estimation of many of its friends, to a fair yet a loving commemoration. It was repeatedly suggested to the author that he ought to prepare such a tribute, because he had owned and edited the dear old Magazine for more than four years and was also familiar with the rest of its long and honorable career.
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Benjamin Blake Minor was an American editor, lawyer, and educator.
Background
Benjamin Blake Minor was born on October 21, 1818, at Tappahannock, Essex County, Virginia. He was the eldest child of Dr. Hubbard Taylor and Jane (Blake) Minor. His grandfather, Thomas Minor, Jr. , of Spotsylvania County, a substantial planter, served as an officer through the Revolution, while his great-grandfather, James Taylor, Jr. , of Caroline County, fought in the French and Indian War, and was a distinguished member of the House of Burgesses, of the Virginia Conventions of 1775 and 1776, of the first Virginia Senate, and of the convention which ratified the federal Constitution. His mother's father was a successful plantation owner and merchant whose vessels traded as far as the West Indies.
Education
Benjamin Minor received his early education in private schools in Essex County. At the age of twelve, he entered the classical academy of Thomas Hanson in Fredericksburg. He was admitted in 1834 to the junior class of Bristol College, a mechanical institution near Philadelphia, and in 1835 matriculated at the University of Virginia, which he attended until 1837, taking diplomas in several "schools, " but no degree. In 1838-39, he attended the College of William and Mary, studying "moral philosophy and political economy" under President Thomas R. Dew and law under Judge N. Beverley Tucker. In 1839, he received the degree of LL. B.
Career
Too young to practice, Benjamin spent the next year in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of Fredericksburg and also visited sessions of the legislature in Richmond. He began the practice of law in Petersburg in October 1840 and took a part in the exciting presidential campaign of Harrison and Tyler. In the spring of the next year, he opened his office in Richmond. His editorial career began the year after his marriage. Thomas W. White, a proprietor of the Southern Literary Messenger, died January 19, 1843, and in the Messenger for August of that year, Minor was announced as the new editor and proprietor. From the beginning, he conducted the magazine with vigor and definiteness of purpose. He had no experience as an editor and the somewhat amateurish air which had marked the Messenger under White's ownership was not discarded, but the journal now reflected a more positive and energetic personality. Minor determined from the beginning to identify it with Southern writers and Southern views, and though he continued to publish articles from other sections, his policy succeeded in making the magazine strongly provincial. He attempted to reopen relations with the Messenger's most distinguished editor and in April 1845 announced that "E. A. Poe, Esq. ," would contribute "monthly a critique raisonnée of the most important forthcoming works"; but the only products of Poe's pen that appeared during Minor's editorship were a revised form of "The Raven" (March 1845) and "The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. ," in December 1844. Perhaps the most noteworthy article printed in the Messenger in this period was "Paper on the Gulf Stream and Currents of the Sea, " by Lieut. Matthew Fontaine Maury, in July 1844. In November 1845, the editor announced the purchase from William Gilmore Simms of the Southern and Western Monthly Magazine and Review, which was merged with the Messenger in January 1846 under the title of the Southern and Western Literary Messenger and Review. The issue for October 1847 was the last to appear under Minor's editorship; in that year he sold the magazine to young John R. Thompson and accepted the principalship of the Virginia Female Institute of Staunton, Va. After one session in this school, he returned in 1848 to Richmond, where he resumed the practice of the law and founded the Home School for Young Ladies. On July 4, 1860, he was elected president of the University of Missouri and professor of moral and political science there. The institution was closed by the provisional government in March 1862, and President Minor, forced to retire, remained in Columbia until 1865, maintaining himself during the Civil War by teaching a boys' school and giving public lectures. In 1865, he opened a school for girls in St. Louis, but after four years disposed of it and engaged in life insurance and public lecturing until 1889 when he returned to Richmond to remain for the remainder of his life. He died in Richmond and was buried in Hollywood Cemetery.
Achievements
Minor was one of the founders of the Richmond Male Orphan Asylum. While practicing law he edited Decisions of Cases in Virginia by the High Court of Chancery, by George Wythe, with a Memoir of the Author (1852) and a new edition of Hening and Munford's Virginia Reports. He was the author of The Southern Literary Messenger, 1834-1864 (1905).
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Religion
A deeply religious and patriotic man, Minor devoted much time in his later years to the activities of historical and patriotic societies and the Episcopal church.
Connections
On May 26, 1842, Minor was married, in Columbia, Tennessee, to Virginia Maury Otey, daughter of James Hervey Otey, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Tennessee.
