Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-07-20
WASHINGTON, ID. G.
PROSPECTUS OF THE EIGHTH VOLUME OF THE
NATIONAL ERA.
@. BAILEY, EDITOR AND PRoPRIEToR'
JOHN @. WHITTIER, CORRESPONDING EDITOR
WASHINGTON, DC.

a. BAILEy. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
John q. WHITTIER, CORRESPONDING EDITOR.
WASHINGTON, DO.
The National Era is weekly newspaper,
devoted to Literature and Politics.
Ia Literature, it aims to unite 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 Seryitude, Civil
Dcspotsn, Spiritual Absolutisn, Class Legis-
lation, the SelHshness of Capital, the Tyranny
Of Combination, the Oppression OF q Majority,
or the Exactions Of Party.
II holds no fellowship with the Wing and
Democratic organizations, believing that the
main issues on which they have been arrayed
against each other are obsolete or settled, ana
that they are now chiefly used by tho Sectional
Interest Of Slavery, to impair the love Of Lib
erty natural to the American mind, and TO
subiugate the American People to it's 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.
Itisa supporter of the independent Democ-
racy, which holds that tho Truths OF the Dec
larasion 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-a Party, whose
motto is Union, not for the sake of Union,
but for the cake of Freedom and Progress (;
and Laao, not for the cake Of Law, but for the
Protection Of Human Rights and interests
tho only sure foundation of order and concord.
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mere Party Paper, but absolutely free and
independentn 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
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 on agreeable companion for the House
hold and an efficient co-adjutor to the enlight-
ed Politician. Ii 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.
The Era publishes condensed reports of the
proceedings of Congress, explains movements
In 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 ac-
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-Slavcry
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, insincerity, that
the Union was formed to secure tho blessings
of Liberty and not to perpetuste the curse or
Slavery.
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