Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-07-28
WASHINGTON, ID. G..
PaosPgCXQs or THE EIGHTH VOLUME OF THE
NATIONAL ERA
q. BAILEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
JOHN @. WHITTIER, CORRESPONDING EDITOR.
WASHINGTON, d. @.

! RAury EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
John q. WHITTIER, CORRESPONDING EDITOR.
WASHINGTON, D. O.
The National Era is weekly newspaper,
devoted to Literature and Politics.
In Literature, it inns to unite the Beautiful
with the True, and to make both Immediately
subsoryient to the practical purposes OF every
day life.
and the Equality of Rights end opposes what
ever violates or tends to violate them, whether
this be Involuntary Personal Servitude, Civil
Despotisr. Spiritual Absolut;sm, Class Legis-
lation. the Selfshness Of Capital, the tyranny
of Combination, the Oppression of Majority,
or the Exactions of Party.
Il holds no fellowship with the Wing and
Democratic organisations, believing that the
main issues on which they have been arrayca
against each other are obsolete or sctsico, ana
that they are now chiefly used by tho Scct'onal
Interest of Slavery, to impair the love OF LIP
orty natural to the American mind, and TO
sub;ugate the American People TO its rule. Dis
claiming al connection with them, il yet sym
pathizes with those Of their adherents 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.
II is a supporter Of the Independents Democ.
racy, which holds that tho Truths Of the Dec
laration Of Independence ere PRACTICAL that IN
thoir Light the Constitution OF the United
States ID to be interpreted, that to them the
lava and institutions and usages OF the coun-
trv should be conformed--a Party, whose
motto is, Union not for the sake of Union,
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Protection Of Human Rights and interests
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enlsrgcd by the addition Of four columns. We
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to all questions at issue between Liberty and
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