Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-04-01

PRospECTUs or THE EIGHTH VOLUME OF THE
NATIONAL ERA.

a. H.
goHN q. WHITTIER, CORRESPONDING EDITOR
WASHINGTON, d. q.
The National Era is weekly newspaper,
devoted to Literature and Politics.
In Literatssre, il aims to unite the Beautiful
with tho True, and to make both Immediately
snbservicnt to tho practical purposes Of every
day life.
In Politics, it advocates the Rights Of Man,
and tho Equality Of Rights and opposes what
over violates or tends to violate them, whether
this be Involuntary Personal Servitude, Civil
Despotism, Spiritual Absolutism, Class Legls-
,lation, the Selfishness Of Capital, tho Tyranny
Of Combination, the Oppression OF Majority,
OF The Exactions Of Party.
II holds no fellowship with the Whig and
Democratic organizations, believing that the
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
ortv natural to the American mind, and 70
subjugate the American People to ita rule. Dis
claiming all connection with them, it yet SYM
pathizcs 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.
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racy, which holds that the Truths OF the Dec
laration 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 coun-
try should be conformed--,l Party, whose
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but for the sake Of Freedom and Progress !;
and Lap, not for the sake of Law, but for the
Protection Of Human Rights and Interests
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enlarged by the addition of four columns. We
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