The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-09-24
BEGINNING JANUARY 1, 1857.


The National Era is an incorporating
opponent of Slavery and the Slave Power; an
advocate of personal, civil, and religious hber-
~, without regard to race or creed; foe TO all
secret combinations to control the Ballot-Box,
whether under the direction of priests or lay
men, and to all measures directly or indirectly
countenancing prescription on account of birth
place or religion; friend of Temperance, the
Homestead, and all reforms calculated to secure
to Labor its Just consideration, recompense, and
political weight, and to Trade, its Natural Free
dom, in virtue Of which every man has g right
to buy and sell in whatever market he pleases-
1t believes in the right of individual Judgment
in all matters, whether of religion or politics.
and rejects the dogma of passive obedience
and non resistance in both Church and State,
holding that no man who swesrs to support ths
Constitution of the United States can delibe,
rately violate his own settled convictions of tia
meaning, without mourning the guilt of perjury,
and that no citizen can obey q human enact,
ment which requires him to commit in Justice,
without immortality.
1t regards Slavery, and the issues involved
in it. as forming the great Political Question Of
the Day; taking the ground, that Slavery, from
its necessities, instincts, and habits is perpetu-
ally sntagonistic to Freedom and Free Labor,
and unchangeably aggressive; that its work.
| system of measures; and it therefore has sup.
ported, and will continue to support, the Re-
publican Party, so long as it shall be true to
Freedom, holding itself, however, perfectly in
| dependent at liberty to approve or condemn
whatever may accord or conflict with its oft.
avowed principles.
1t presents weekly summary of General
News and Political Intelligence, keeps a rec.
ord of the Proceedings Of Congress, and is the
repository Of large portion of the most i'm.
portant speeches delivered in that body.
Its Foreign and Domestic Correspondence is
carefully provided fer and its Literary Miscel.
lany. chiefly original, being supplied by many
of the beet writer's Of he country. makes it EN-
phaticslly PAPER FOR THE FAMILY
The Republican Parry mus now perfect its
organization and proceed ~ once TO the task
of enlightening the Puhlir Mind. Only in this
wav can it retain its power in The States which
1t now controls, and acquire power IN the States
which have Just decided The issue against it.
Documents and speeches answer the purposes
OF temporary canvass hut permanent effects
can he produced best nv ev-r-wc liking agencies
A single tract, read, may he fargorten-a good
newspaper, going into family as a regular
v'siter, will not be forgotten II il the continual
dropping that wears away stone-the repeated
blow that drives the wedge home-importu.
MY tudI prevails Wnere SphsDOCiC appeals
fail. The newspaper devoted to the discussion
of fundamental principles, is the constant drop.
ping, the all-prevailing importantly. No other
agency can supply its place.
My subscribers have stood hy the Era hand.
somely. No paper can boast warmer or more
steadfast friends. They have not forgotten
that, whatever the claims and merits of other
papers, the Era, in the face of imminent per.
ills, was the pioneer to Freedom Of the Press in
this slsveholding District, and has been for ten
years the only journal at the seat of the Fed.
eral Government, representing the sentiments
| of the Free States on the great Question of the
Country, the only journal through which their
loyal representatives in Congress could find
voice and vindication. They have not forgot
ten, nor will they forget, that while papers en-
gagged in the same Cause elsewhere, have
strong local interests to rely upon, and the pa
pers printed here, opposed to our Cause, thrive
through the patronage Of the Federal Govern
ment, the Era is uniformly prescribed by that
Government, and its legal right to official ad-
vertisements denied, while, 30 far from having
the support, it is constantly subjected to the
opposition, of strong local interests; SO that its
only dependence is upon those enlightened
friends of Freedom, ell over the country, who
appreciate the Hecesgity of maintaining such
sentinel on the outpost of Freedom.
G. BAILEY.