Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-04-05

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pRospHCrUs or THE EIGHTH VOLUME OF THE
NATIONAL ERA.

PR0spHCTUs OF THE EIGHTH VOLUME OF THE
NATIONAL ERA.
a RArLry. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
IoHN q. wHITTIER, CORRESPONDING EDITOR.
WASHINGTON, DC.
The National Era is weekly newspaper,
devoted TO Literature and Politics
In Literature, it aims to unite the Beautiful
with the 1xne, and to make both Immediately
subservicnt to the practical purposes OF every
day life.
Ia 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 Absolntism, Class Legs
lation, the Selfshness Of Capital the tyranny
Of Combination, the Oppression Of Majority,
or the Exactions Of Party.
IL holds no fellowship with the Whig and
Democratic organizations, 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, and TO
subiueate the American People TO its rule DIS
claiming all connection with them, IT yet sym
pathixes 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.
Il il . supporter Of the Independents Dcmoc-
raey, which holds that the Truths OF the Dec.
laration Of Independence are practical, that m
their light the Constitution OF the United
States il to be interpreted, that to them the
laws and institutions and usages OF the coun-
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Protection of Human Rights and Interests
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TO all questions at issue between Liberty and
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