Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-07-31
WASHINGTON, d. G.
PROSPECTUS OF THE EIGHTH VOLUME OF THE
NATIONAL ERA.

a aAu.ry. EDITOR AND PRoPRIEToR.
JOHN @. WHITTIER, CORRESPONDING EDITOR.
WASHINGTON, D. G.
The National Era is q weekly newspaper,
devoted to Literature and Politics.
In Literature, it aims to unite the Beautiful
with the True, and to make both immediately
subservient to the practical purposes Of every
day life.
In 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
Despotisnl. Spiritual Absolutism, Class Legis-
Iation, the Seifshness 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 tne
main Issues on which they have bcen arrayed
against each other are obsolete or settled, and
that thew are now chiefly used by the Sectional
Interest Of Slavery, to impair the love of LIB
erty natural to the American mind, and to
subiugate 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
Il ia supporter Of the independent Democ-
racy. which holds that the Truths of the Dec
laration of Independence are prGetsca1 that 10
their LIGHT the Constitution OF the United
States iS to be interpreted, that to them the
laws and institutions and usages Of the coun-
try should be conformed-a Party, whose
motto is. Union, not for the sake Of Union,
but for the sake of Freedom and Progress;
and Law 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
independent claiming to speak BY author
ityn for nobody except its editor, and recognl-
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The Eighth Volume Of the Era will COM
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the Union was formed to secure the blessings
of Liberty, and not to perpetuate the curse or
Slavery.
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