Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-07-21
WASHINGTON, ID. G.
PROSPECTUS or THE EIGHTH VOLUME OF THE
NATIONAL ERA

a HAu.ry. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
JOHN @. WHITTIER, CORRESPONDING EDITOR.
WASHINGTON, DC.
The National Era is weekly newspaper,
devoted to Literature and Politics.
In Literature, it aims to unite the Beautiful
with the True, and to make both immediately
subscrvient to the practical purposes OF every
day life. ~,
In 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
Despotisnl, Spiritual AbsolutisIn, Glass Log's-
lation, the Selfshness Of Capital, the Tyranny
Of Combination, the Oppression Of Majority,
or the Exactions OF Party.
IL holds no fellowship with the Whig ana
Democratic organizations believing that the
main issues on which they have been arrayea
against each other arc obsolete Or setsied, ana
that they arc now chiefly used by the Sectional
Interest or Slavery, to impair tho love of Lib
erty natural to the American mind, and to
subiugate the American People TO it's rule. Dis
claiming all connection w.tl thern, it yet sym
pathizes with those of their adherents who arc
honestly seeking through them to advance tae
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 practical, that I'D
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 sake of Freedom and Progress !;
and Laau, 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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Nero 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.
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mence on the first Of January ensuing, and be
enlarged by the addition Of four columns. We
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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 ell questions at issue between Liberty and
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