The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-12-15
PROSPECTUS or TIE EIGHTH VOLUME OF THE
NATIONAL ERA
C. BAILEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
JOHN G. WHITTIER, CORRESPONDING EDITOR.

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JOHN G. WHITTIER, CORRESPONDING EDITOR.
WASHINGTON, DC
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ever violates or tends to violate them whether
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Despotsm, Spiritual AbsOlutism, Class Legis-
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main issues on which they have been srrayed
against each other are obsolete or settled and
that they are now chiefly used by the Sectional
Interest of Slavery, to impair the love of Lib
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