Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-04-18
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PROsPECTUs or THE EIGHTH VOLUME OF THE
NATIONAL ERA.

III II.
JOHN a. WHITTIER, eoRREsPoNDING EplTok.
WASHINGTON, D. G.
The National Era il weekly newspaper,
devoted to Literature and Politics
II Literature, it aims to unite the Beautiful
with the True. and to make both Immediately
subservient to the practical purposes Of every
day life.
4 Ia Politics, il 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 Absolntism, Class Legis-
lation, the Selfshness of Capital, the Tyranny
Of Combination, the Oppression OF = Majority,
or the Exactions of Party.
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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 Sectional
Interest Of Slavery, TO impair tho love OF Lib
erty natural to the American mind, and TO
subiugate tile American People to its rule DIS
claiming oil connection with them, IT yet sym
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honestly seeking through them TO advance the
substantial interests Of tho country, although
It must believe that they have not chosen the
better way.
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their light the Constitution Of the United
States is to be interpreted, that to them the
laws and institutions and usages of the coun-
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Protection Of Human Rights and Interests
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