Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-04-14
WASHINGTON, d. G.
PRospEcrUs or THE EIGHTH VOLUME OF THE
NATIONAL ERA.

q pAury. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
IouN q. WHITTIER, CORRESPONDING EDiroR.
WASHINGTON, DC
The National Era is weekly newspaper,
devoted 70 Literature and Politics.
Ia Literature, it aims to unite the Beautiful
with tho True, and to make both Immediately
subservient to tho practical purposes Of every
day life.
IN Politics, il advocates tho Rights Of Man,
and the Equality of Rights, and opposes what
ever violates or tends 70 violate them, whether
this be Involuntary Personal Servltude Clvii
Despotism, Spiritual Absolutiam, Class Lcgis
latiou. the Seifshness Of Capital, the Tyranny
Of Combination the Oppression Of . Majority,
or the Exactions of Party. !,
Il holds no fellowship with the Wing and
Democratic organisations, believing that the
main Issues on which they have been arrayed
against each other are obsolete or settled, and
that they arc now chiefly used by the Sectional
Interest or Slavery, to impair tho love OF LID
erty natural to the American mind, and 70
sub;urste the American People to its rule. Dis
claiming all connection with thcm, it yet sym
pathixos with those of their adhcrents who are
honestly seeking through them to advance the
substantial interests of tho country, although
it must believe that they have not chosen the
better way.
Il is supporter of tho Independent Democ-
racy, which holds that the Truths OF the Doc
laration Of Independence are practical, that IN
their light the Constitution Of the United
Statas q TO be interpreted, that to them the
laws and institutions and usages of the ooun
try should be c0nformcd--a Party, whose
motto ia Union, not for tho sake of Union;
but for the sake of Freedom and Progress !;
and Lasu 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 n
more Party Paper, but absolutely free and
independent claiming to speak "by author
ityr for nobody except its editor, and rocogni-
sing no authority in any quarter to prescribe its
course and policy.
The Eighth Volume Of the Era will COM
mence 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 an agreeable companion for the House
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cd Politician 1t has secured able correspond
onts at homo and abroad, and no journal In
the country can surpass the Era as it respects
contributors to its Literary Department
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proceedings Of Congress- explains movements
In that body, the causes of which do pot always
lie upon the surface, and from its position is
enabled 10 keep constant watch upon the ac-
ton of tho Federal Government in relation
to oil questions at issue 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 Sla.
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the Union was formed to secure the blessings
Of Liberty, and not to perpetuate the curse Of
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