Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-06-23

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PROSPECTUS or THE EIGHTH VOLUME OF TIL
NATIONAL ERA,


Prospectus or THE EIGHTH VOLUME OF THE
NATIONAL ERA.
q. BAILEY. EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
JOHN a. WHITTIER, CORRESPONDING EDITOR.
WASHINGTON, D. G..
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
mlbservicnt 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 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 Wing and
Democratic organizations, believing that 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 Sectionai
Interest Of Slavery, to impair the love OF LID
erty natural to the American mind, ana 70
subiugate the American People to its rule DIS
claiming all connection with them, it yet SYM
pathizes with those of their adherents 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 a supporter of the 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 il to be interpreted, that to them the
laws and institutions and usages of the c0un-
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 Laao 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
independentD 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
mencc on the 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 enlght-
ed Politician. It has secured able correspond
ents at home and abroad, and no journal in
the country can surpass the Era as 1t respects
contributors to its Literary Department.
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proceedings of Congress, explains movements
in that BODY, the causes of which do not always
lie upon the surface, and from it's position is
enabled to keep q constant watch upon the &C.
ton Of the Federal Government in relation
to all questions at issue between Liberty and
Slavery.
The only journal at the seat of the Federal
Government, representing the Anti-Slavery
Sentiment OF the Republic while the Pro-Sia-
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sustained by Governmental patronage, 1t asks
the support of all who believe in sincerity, that
the Uafon was formed to secure the blessings
of Liberty, and not to perpetuate the curse or
Slavery.
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