The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-11-24

The National Era is a weekly newspaper,
devoted to Literature and Politics.
In Literature, it aims to unite the Beautiful
with the True, and to make both Immediately
subservient to the practical purposes of every
day life.
In Politics, it advocates the Rights of Man,
and the Equality of Rights and opposes what
ever violates or tends to violate them, whether
this be involuntary Personal Servitude, Civil
| Despotism Spiritual Absolutism Class Legs-
laton, the Selfshness Of Capital, the Tyranny
of Combination the Oppression of a Majority,
or the ExactiOns Of Party.
1t holds no fellowship with the Wing and
Democratic organizations, believing that the
main ISSUES on which they have been arrayed
against each other arc obsolete or settled, and
that they are now chiefly used by the Sectional
Interest of Slavery, to impair the love of Lib
| erty natural to the American mind, and to
! suLjugate the American People to its rule. Dis
claiming all connection with them, it yet SYM
pathizes with those of their adherents who are
honestly seeking through them to advance the
substantial interests of the country, although
it must believe that they have not chosen the
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laration Of Independence are practical, that in
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# Liberty and not to perpetuate the curse of
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