Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-07-27
WASHINGTON, d. G.
PROSPECTUS or THE EIGHTH VOLUME OF THE
NATIONAL ERA

Marcy. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
John a. WHITTIER, CORRESPONDING EDITOR.
WASHINGTON, D. c.
The National Era is weekly newspaper,
devoted to Literature and Politics
In Literature il Tins to unite the Beautiful
with the True and to make both Immediately
subscrvient to the practical purposes OF every
day life.
and the Equality Of Rights, and opposes what
ever violates or tends to violate them, whether
this be Involuntary Personal Servtude, Civil
Dcspotism, Spiritual Absblutisrn, Class Legis-
lation, the Sei6shness Of Capital, the Tyranny
Of Combination, the Oppression Of . Majority,
or the Exactions of Party.
Il holds no fellowship with the Wing ana
Democratic organisations, believing that the
main issues on which they have been arrayed
against each other are obsolete or settled, ana
that they are now chiefly used BY the Sectional
Interest of Slavery to impair the love OF LID
erty natural to the American mind, ana 20
subiugate the American People to ltd rule. DIS
claiming all connection with them, it yet SYM
nathizes 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
better way.
II ia supporter of the Independent Democ-
racv. which holds that the Truths OF the Dec
laration of Independence are prastlcah that N
their light the Constitution of the United
States Is to be interpreted, that to them the
laws and institutions and usages OF the coun-
trv should be conformed-a Party, whose
motto il, Union, not for the sake of Union,
hut for the sake of Freedom and Progress
and LaiO, not for the sake Of Law, but for the
Protection of Human Rights and Interests
the only sure foundation Of order and concord.
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mere Party Paper, but absolutely free and
independently claiming to speak aby author
ityn for nobody except its editor, and recogni-
sing no authority in any quarter to prescribe its
course and policy
Tho Eighth Volume Of the Era will COM
menca on the first of January ensuing, and be
enlarged by tho addition of four columns we
have neglected no means that could promise TO
make it an agreeable companion for the House
hold and an efficient co-adjutor to the enlght-
ed Politician. 1t has secured able correspond
ents at home and abroad, and no journal in
the country can surpass tho Era as It respects
contributors to its Literary Department.
The Era publishes condensed reports OF the
proceedings of Congress- explains movements
In that body, the causes Of which do not always
lie upon the surface, and from its position il
enabled to keep CONSTANT watch upon the 40.
ton of the Federal Government in relation
to all questions at issue between Liberty and
Slavery.
The only journal at the seat of the Federal
Government representing the Ant-Slavery
Sentiment of the Republic, while the Pro Sia-
very Sentiment is represented here by four
daily papers, nearly all Of them being literally
sustained by Governmental patronage, it asks
the support Of all who believe, in sincerity, that
the Union was formed to secure the blessings
Of Liberty, and not to perpesuate the curse OF
Slavery.
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