Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-04-13
WASHINGTON, d. q.
PROSPECTUS OF THE EIGHTH VOLUME OF THE
NATIONAL ERA.

,ous q. WHITTIER, CORRESPONDING EDITOR
WASHINGTON, D.
Tho National Era Is weekly newspaper,
devoted 10 Literature and Politics.
n Litsrdt,fre it aims to unite the Beautiful
w;tirtho True. aud to make both Immediately
subssr Went to tho practical purposes OF every
day life.
and the Equality Of Rights, and opposes what
ever violates or tends to violate them, whether
this be Involuntary Personal Servitude Civil
Despotism, Spiritual Absolutism, Class Legs
lation, the Selfshness Of Capital, the tyranny
Of Combination, the Oppression OF Majority,
or the Exactions Of Party.
II holds no fellowship with the Whig ana
Democratic organizations, believing thai the
main issues on which they have been arrayed
against each other are obsolete or settled, ana
that they are now chiefly used BY the Sectlonai
Interest Of Slavery to impair tho love OF LIB
ertv natural to the American mind, and to
subiugate the American People to its rule DIS
claiming all connection with them, it yet sym
pathizes with those Of their sdherents 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.
Ii is supporter Of the Independent Democ-
raoy. which holds that tho Truths OF the Dec
laration Of independence arc prGctacdt, that IN
their light the Constitution OF the United
States is to bo interpreted, that to them the
laws and institutions and usages OF the coun-
trv should be conlormed--a Party, whose
motto ia Union, not for thc sake of Union,
but for the sake Of Freedom and Progress /;
and Laav, not for the sake Of Law, but for the
Protection Of Human Rights and interests
the only sure foundation of order and concord.
Ia no sense il it the organ of a Party, or q
mere Party Paper, but absolutely free and
iadepondent,n claiming to speak "by author
ityn for nobody except its editor, and recogni-
sing no authority in any quarter to prescribe It's
course and policy
The Eighth Volume of the Era will COM
mence ON the first of January ensuing and be
enlarged by tho addition of four columns We
have neglected no means that could promise to
make it an agreeable companion for the House
hold and an efficient co-adjutor to the enlight-
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
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 40
ton Of tho Federal Government in relation
to all questions at issue between Liberty and
Slavery.
The only journal at the scat Of the Federal
Government, representing the Anti-Slavery
Sentiment Of the Republic, while the Pro Sla-
very Sentiment is represented hcre BY four
daily papers, nearly ali of them being literally
sustained by Governmental patronage, it asks
the support Of all who believe in sincerity, that
the U,,ion was formed to secure the blessings
of Liberty, and not to perpctuatc tho curse OF
Slavery.
Payment in advance is invariably required.
To preycnt annoyance and loss to ourselves
and readers, TO preserve their files unbroken,
and TO enable us to know how large an edi-
tion Of the paper to issue, all subscriptions
should be removed before they expire. We
havo no credit-subscribers on our books.
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