Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-06-30
WASHINGTON, ID. z.
pROapEcTus OF THE EIGHTH VOLUME OF THE
NATIONAL ERA.


q BAILEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
JOHN O. WHITTIER, coRREsPoNDIHG EDITOR.
WASHINGTON, D..
The National Era is a weekly newspaper,
devoted to Literature and Politics.
In Literature, it eims to unite the Beautiful
with the True, and to make both Immediately
subseryiont to the practical purposes OF every
day lifc.
Ia Politics it advocates tho 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
Dcspotism, Spiritual Ahsolutisn, Class Legis
lation, tho Selishness of Capital, the Tyranny
of Combinaton, the Oppression Of u Majority,
or the Exactions Of Party.
1t holds no fellowship with the Whig ana
Democratic organisations, believing that the
main issues on which they have been arrayed
against each other are obsolete or settled, ana
that they arc now chiefly used by the Sectional
Interest of Slavery, to impair the love OF l.lb-
erty natural to the American mind, ana tn
subusate 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
better way.
II is a supporter of tho Independent Democ-
raey, which holds that the Truths OF the Dec
laration Of Independence are praeficdl that IN
their light the Constitution OF the United
States is to be interpreted, that to them the
laws and institutions and usages OF the c0un'
try should be conf0rmed--a Party, whose
motto il, Uaion not for the sake Of Union,
but for the sake Of Freedom and Progress !;
r g.. IL oIyn Of I ovu h1tf fOr a
Protection Of Human Rights and Interests
the only sure foundation Of order and concord.
In no sense is it the organ of Party, or y
mere Party Paper, but absolutely :" free and
Independents" claiming to speak by 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
mence on the first of January ensuing, and DO
enlarged by the 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 enlight.
ed Politician. Ii has secured able correspond
ents at home and abroad, and no journal in
the country can surpass the Era AZ it respects
contributors to it's Literary Department.
The Era publishes condensed reports of the
proceedings of Congress, explains movements
10 that body, the causes Of which do not always
lie upon tho surface, and from its position IL
enabled to keep constant watch upon the ac-
tion of the Federal Government in relation
tn all questions Mt issne between Liberty and
Slavery
The only journal at the scat of the Federal
Government representing the Anti-Slayery
Sentiment of the Republic, while the Pro-S -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
tho U,sion was formed to secure tho blessings
of Liberty, and not to perpetuate the curse OF
Slavery.
Payment in advance is invariably required
To prevent annoyance and loss to ourselves
and readers, to preserve their files unbroken
and to enable us TO know how large an edi
tiou of the paper TO issue, all subscriptions
should be removed before they expire We
have no credit Subscribers on our hooks.