Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-06-29

WASHINGTON, d. G.
PROSPECTUS or THE EIGHTH VOLUME OF THE
NATIONAL ERA


PROSPECTUS or THE EIGHTH VOLUME OF THE
NATIONAL ERA
a. BAILEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
JOHN O. WHITTIER, CORRESPONDING EDITOR.
WASHINGTON, DC.
Tho National Era is weekly newspaper,
devoted to Literature and Politics.
In Liteyat1ye, it aims to unto the Beautiful
with the True, and to make both Immediately
subservient 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 Servitudc, Civil
Despotism Spiritual Absolutsm, Class Legs
Iaton, the Selfshness of Capital, tho Tyranny
Of Combination, the Oppression OF Majority,
or the Exactions of Party.
II holds no fellowship with the Whig aud
Democratic .organisatsons, believing that she
main issues on which they have been arrayed
against each other are obsolete or settled, and
that they 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 tho American People to its rule. Dis
claiming all connection with them, 1T yet SYM
oathzes with those Of their adhercnts 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
1t is supporter Of the independent Democ,
racy, which holds that the Truths OF the Dec
iaration Of independence are PRACTICAL 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 conformed--a Party, whose
C,x Ha Af InInY
but for the sake OF Freedom and Progress
and Lasv, not for the sake Of Law, but for the
Protection of Human Rights and Interests
the only sure foundation of order and concord.
In no sense is it the organ of Party or
mere Party Paper, but absolutely "freo and
independent claiming to speak by author
ityn for nobody except it's editor, and recogni-
sing no authority in any quarter to prescribe its
course and policy.
The Eighth Volume of the Era will COM
monce on the first of January ensuing, and be
enlarged by the addition Of four columns We
have neglected no means that could promise to
make it ar, agreeable companion for the House
hold, and an efficient co-adjutor to the enlght-
ed Politician. Il has secured able correspond
ents at home and abroad, and no journal in
the country can surpass the Era as it respects
contributors to its Literary Department.
proceedings of Congress, explains movements
n that BODY, the causes of which do not always
lie upon the Surface and from its position is
enabled to keep constant watch upon the &C
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 Anti-Slavery
Sentiment of the Republic, while the Pro- Sla-
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 porpetuate the curse or
Slavery.
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