Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-04-03
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PRosfEcrus or THE MaHTH VOLUME OF THE
NATIONAL ERA.

II &s@-~~s Z a
a. BAILEY, EDITOR AND pRoPRIEroR.
IoHN a. WHITTIER, CORRESPONDING EDITOR.
WASHINGTON, D. q.
The National Era is weekly newspaper,
devoted to Literature and Politics.
n Literature, it eims to unto the Beautiful
with the True, and to make both immediately
subservient TO the practical purposes Of every
Ia Politics, II advocates the Rights Of Man,
and the Equality Of Rights, and opposes what
ever violates or tends to violate them, whethor
this be Involuntary Personal Sorvitude Civil
Despotism, Spiritual Absolutism, Class Legs
lation, the Selfsbness Of Capital, the Tyranny
Of Combination, the Oppression Of Majority,
or the Exactions Of Party.
ID holds no Fellowship with the Wing ana
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 Sectionai
Interest of Slavery, to impair tho love OF LID
erty natural to the American mind, and 70
subiugate the American People to its rule. Dis
claiming all connection with them, it yct sym
pathizes with those of their adherents who are
honestly seeking through them to advance the
substantial interests Of the country although
il must believe that they have not chosen the
better way.
Il is supporter Of tho Independent Dcmoc-
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 usagcs OF the conn
try should be conformed-a Party, whose
motto il, Union, not for the sake of Union,
but for the sake Of Freedom and Progress I;
and LaaU, not far the sake Of Law, but for the
Protection Of Human Rights and interests -
tho only sure foundation Of order and concord.
Ia no sense is it the organ OF a Party, or q
mere Party Paper, but absolutely free and
independent claiming to speak "by author
ityr for nobody except its editor, and recogn-
sing 20 authority in any quarter to prescribe it's
course and policy.
The Eighth Volume of the Era will COM
mence on tho first of january ensuing, and be
enlarged by the 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
cd 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 it's Literary Department
The Era publishes condensed reports OF the
prOc0oOlngb Vi NOnkrccr, oApioin1 inOscniCueS
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-
tion Of the 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-Slayery
Sentiment Of the Republic, while the Pro Sla-
very Sentiment is represented here by four
daily papers nearly oil Of them being literally
sustained by Governmental patronage, it asks
the support Of all who believe, in sincerity, that
the Union was formed to secure the blessings
Of Liberty, and not to pcrpetuate the curse OF
Slavery.
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