Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-07-19

WASHINGTON, ID. G.
PROSPECTUS or THE EIGHTH VOLUME OF TIE
NATIONAL ERA.

PROSPECTUS on TIE EIGHTH VOLUME OF TIE
NATIONAL ERA.
4 O. BAILEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
JOHN q. WHITTIER, CORRESPONDING EDITOR
WASHINGTON D. @.
The National Era is weekly newspaper,
devoted TO Literature and Politics.
In Literature, it aims to unite the Beautiful
with tho True and to mako both Immediately
subscryicnt to tho practical purposes Of every
day life.
In Politics, il advocates the Rights of Man,
and the Equality of Rights, and opposcs what
ever violates or tends To violate them, whether
this be Involuntary Personal Scrvitude, Civil
Despotism, Spiritual Absnlutisni, Class Legls-
latiou, the Seiiishness Of Capital, tho Tyranny
Of Combination, tho Oppression Of Majority,
or the Exaetions of Party.
1t holds no fellowship with tho Wing anu
Democratic organizations believing that the
main issucs on which they have been arrayed
against each other are obsolete or settled, and
that they arc now chiefly used by tho Scctionai
Interest Of Slavery, to impair the love OF I'D
erty natural to the American mind, and TO
subiugate the American People to its rule. Dis
claiming all connection with them, is yer sym
pathizes with those of their adhercnts 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~supportcr of the independent DcInoc-
racy, which holds that tho Truths OF the Dec
laration Of Independence aropractlcal that IN
their light the Constitution Of the United
States IS to be interpreted, that to them the
laws and institutions and usagcs Of the coun-
try should be conformed--a Party, whose
motto is, Union, not for the sake OF Union,
but for the sake or Freedom and Progress !;
and Lao, not for the sake Of Law, but for tho
Protection of Human Rights and Interests
the only surc foundation of order and concord.
In no sense is it the organ of Party, or
independent" claiming to speak by author
ityn for nobody except its editor, and rccogni-
sing no authority in any quarter to prescribe its
course and policy.
The EIGHTH Volume of the Era will COM
mcncc 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 On efficient coadjutor to the cnIght-
ed Politician. 1t has secured able correspond
cnts at home and abroad, and no journal in
the country can surpass the Era IS it 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
lo upon the surface, and from its position is
enabled to keep . constant watch upon the 90
ton Of the Federal Government in relation
to all questions at issue between Liberty and
Slavery.
The only journal at the scat OF the federal
Government, representing the Anti-Slavery
Sentiment Of the Republic, while the ProSla-
very Sentiment is represented here by four
, daily papers, nearly all Of them being literally
sustained by Governmental patronage, il asks
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the Uasyn was formed to SECURE the blessings
Of Liberty, and not to perpctuate tho curse OF
Slavery.
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