Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-07-12

WASHINGTON, p. G.

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PR0sPECTUs or THE EIGHTH VOLUME OF THE
NATIONAL ERA.
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John O. WHITTIER, CORRESPONDING EDITOR.
WASHINGTON, D. @.
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with the True, and to make both immediately
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and the Equality Of Rights and opposes what
ever violates or tends to violate them, whether
this be Involuntary Personal Seryitudc, Civil
Despotism, Spiritual Absolntism, 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 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 Sectional
Interest of Slavery, to impair the love OF lib
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snbiugate the American People to its rule Dis
claiming all connection with them, 1t yet sym
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honestly seeking through them to advance the
substantial interests Of the country, although
it must believe that they have not chosen the
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their light the Constitution Of the United
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laws and institutions and usages OF the coun-
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Mar, and tho Equality Of Rights, and oppose
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Cia~~ Legislation, tho Scl6shness Of Capital,
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