Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-04-21

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PRosPxcrus or THE EIGHTH VOLUME OF THE
NATIONAL ERA.


PRosPEcrUs or THE EIGHTH VOLUME OF THE
NATIONAL ERA.
a. BAILEY, EpiToR AND PROPRIETOR.
John a. WHITTIER, CORRESPONDING EDITOR.
WASHINGTON, &c.
The National Era is weekly newspaper,
devoted to Literature and Politics.
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with the True, and to make both immediately
subsorvent to the practical purposes OF every
day life.
In Politics, il advocates the Rights Of Man,
and the Equality of Rights, and opposes what
ever violates or tends to violate, them, whether
this bo involuntary Personal Servitude, Civil
Despotism. Spiritual Absolntism, Class Legis-
lation. the SeiHshness Of Capital, the Tyranny
Of Com mbination, the Oppression Of Majority,
or the Exaotions Of Party.
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Democratic organizdnions, believing that the
main issues ON which they havo 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 Lid
erty natural to the American mind, ana 10
subiugate the American People to it's rule. Dis-
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honestly seeking through them to advance tne
substantial interests of the country, although
it must believe that they have not chosen the
better way.
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their light the Constitution Of the United
States ia to be interpreted, that to them the
laws and institutions and usages OF the coun-
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and Literary Newspaper.
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Man, and the Equality OF Rights, and oppose
whatever violates or tends TO violate them,
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tudc, Civil Dsspotism, Spiritual Absolutism,
Class Legislation, tho Sel6shness Of Capital,
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and Democratic organizations, believing that
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rayed against each other are obsolete or settled,
and that they are now chiefly used by the Sec