Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-08-03
WASHINGTON, ID. c.
PROSPECTUS or THE EIGHTH voLUhz OF THE
NATIONAL ERA.

PRCcf ECTGe or The EIGHTH VuLunh " LIE
NATIONAL ERA
a. sAiLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
JOHN q. WHITTIER, CORRESPONDING EDITOR.
WASHINGTON, D. @.
The Natio1lal Era is a weekly newspaper,
deyoted to Literature and Politics.
Ia Literature it eims to unite the Beautiful
with the True, and TO make both immediately
sabser Gient to tho practical purposes OF every
day lifc.
Ii Politics, i. 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
Despotisrn, Spiritual Abaolutism, Class Legis-
lation, the Seifshness Of Capital, the Tyranny
Of Combination, the Oppression Of Majority,
or the Exactions Of Party.
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Democratic organizations, believing that tne
main issues on which they have been arrayed
against each other ere obsolete or settled, and
that they are now chiefly used by the Sectional
Interest OF Slavery, to impair tho love Of Lib
erty natural to the American mind, and to
subingate the American People to its rule. Dis
claiming all connection with them, 1t yet sym
pathizes with those of their adhcrents 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 coniormed-a Party, whose
motto is, Union, not for the sake OF Union,
but for the sake of Freedom and Progress;
and Lasy, not for the sake Of Law, but for the
Protection Of Human Rights and Interests
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