Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-03-29
WASHINGTON, d. Q.
PR0sPECTUs OF THE EIGHTH VOLUME OF THE
NATIONAL ERA.

WASHINGTON, D. Q.
The National Era in q weekly newspaper,
devoted to Literature and Politics.
In Literature, it aims to unite the Beautiful
with the True, and to make both Immediately
subsorvient 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
Dcspotism, Spiritual Absolntism, Class Lcgis
Iation. the Seifshncss Of Capital, the Tyranny
OF Combination, tho Oppression of Majority,
or the Exactions Of Party. !.
1t holds no fellowship with the Wing ana
Democratic organisations, 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-
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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.
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their light the Constitution Of the United
States is to be interpreted, that to thap the
laws and institutions and usages OF the coun-
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Protection Of Human Rights and Interests
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