The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-01-26
PROSPECTUS OF TBE DAILY NATIONAL ERA.


/ shall issue. on the I'd day Of January en-
SUING the DAHY NATIONAL ERA, Political
and Literary Newspaper.
In Politics. il will advocate the Rights OF
Man, and the Equality of Rights, and oppose
whatever violates or tends to violate them,
whether this be Involuntary Personal Servi-
tude, Civil Despotsm, Spiritual Absolutism.
Class Legislation, the Selfishness Of Capital,
the Tyranny of Combination, the Oppression OF
a Majority, or the Exactons of Party.
II will hold no fellowship with the Wing
and Democratic organisations, believing that
the main issues on which they have been ar
rayed against each other are obsolete or settled
and that they are now chiefly used by the Sec
uonal Interest OF Slavery, TO impair the love of
Liberty natural TO the American mind, and to
subjugate the American People TO its rule. Dis
claiming all connection with them, it will vet
sympaihize 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 will be a supporter of the Independent
Democracy, which holds that the Truths of the
Declaration of independence are practical; that
in their light the Constitution of the United
States is TO be Interpreted; that to them the laws
and institutions and usages Of the country
should be conformed-a Party, whose motto
is, Union, not for the sake Of Union, but for the
sake of Freedom and Progress; and Ll,c, not
for the sake of Law. but for the Protection of
Human Rights and lnterests-ihe only sure
foundation of order and concord.
In no sense will il be the organ Of Party, or
a mere Party Paper, but absolutely /" free and
independent" claiming TO speak by " author-
ty" for nobody except its editor, and recognis-
ing no authority in any quarter TO prescribe its
course and policy.
In Literature, IL will aim to unite the Beau
utul with the True, and to make both imrnedi
ausis suJscrvicnt The practical purposes OF
everyday life.
Able correspondents. at home and abroad
have been secured, and ample provision has
been made for its Literary Miscellany.
Ii will publish condensed reports of the pro-
ceedings of Congress, explain movements in
that BODY, the causes of which do not always
lie upon the surface, and from its position be
able TO keep a constant watch upon the action
of the Federal Government in relation to all
questions at issue between Liberty and Slavery
The extensive subscription of the Weekly
Era, which, during the year about to close, has
reached the number of twenty-eght thousand,
must make il an eligible medium for advertisers
The Daily Era will be issued on a sheet as
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on the Cd day of January, 1854, and daily there
after, until the lst Of September, 1854, Cor long
er, should Congress continue in SESSION. AT
FIvE DOLLARS FOR THAT PERIOD; and should
the result then WARRANT, the publication will be
resumed on the Isl of December following, by
the year.
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and the ID of January. ii is important that
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Payment in adrssce ,rW be Invariably re-
q,ared. G. BAILEY.
Washington, December Is, 1853.