Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-07-05
WASHINGTON, d. 9.
PROSPECTUS OF THE EIGHTH VOLUME OF THE
NATIONAL ERA.

O.. O~>'
JOHN a. WHITTIER, CORRESPONDING EDITOR.
WASHINGTON, DO.
The National Era is weekly newspaper,
devoted to Literature and Politics.
In Literature, it aims to unite the Beautlfui
with the True, and to make both immediateiy
Subscrvient to the practical purposes OF every
day life. I, ~.
and the Equality of Rights and opposes what
ever violates or tends to violate them, whether
this be Involuntary Personal Servitude, Civil
Dcspotism, Spiritual Absolutism, Class Legis-
lation, the SeIfshness Of Capital, the Tyranny
Of Combination the Oppression OF Majority,
or the Exactions Of Party.
It holds no fellowship with the Whig and
Democratic organizations, believing that the
main issues on which they have been arrayod
against each other arc obsolete or settled, and
that they are now chiefly used by the 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, 1t yet SYM
pathizes with those of their adhersnts who arc
honestly seeking through them to advance the
substantial interests of tho country, although
it must believe that they have not chosen the
better way.
It is supporter of the independent Democ-
racy, which holds that the Truths OF the Dec
laration of Independence are pracftcab that 10
their light the Constitution OF the United
States Is to be interpreted, that to them tho
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 sake of Freedom and Progress
and Lar not for the sake Of Law, but for the
Protection Of Human Rights and Interests
the only sure foundation Of order and concord.
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mere Party Paper, but absolutely " free and
independent claiming to speak "by author
ityr for nobody except its editor, and recogni-
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course and policy.
The Eighth Volume of the Era will COM
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enlarged by the addition Of four columns. We
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in that body, the causes of which do not always
lic upon the surface, and from its position is
enabled to keep constant watch upon the ac-
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to all questions at issue between Liberty and
Slavery.
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Sentiment Of the Republic, while the Pro-Sla
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the Union was formed to secure the blessings
Of Liberty, and not to perpetuate the curse OF
Slavery.
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