The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-05-20
The NATION ERA.
Washington, D. G.
PROSPECTUS OF THE TWELFTH VOLUME.
BEGINNING JANUARY l, 1858.
g. BAILEY, EDITOR AND PRoPRIEToRJ
JoHH, q. wHIrTIKR, CORRESPONDING EDITOR

The National Era is an uncompromising
opponent of Slavery and the Slave Power; an
advocate OF personal, civil, and religious iber.
ty, without regard to race or creed; a foe to al
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, tbs
Homestead, and all reforms calculated to securs
to Labor its just consideration, recompense, and
political weight, and to Trade, its Natural Free.
dom, in virtue of which every man has q right
to buy and sell in whatever market he pleases.
1t regards Slavery, and the issues involved
in il, 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 unchangesbly aggressive; that its work.
ings can be counteracted only by permanent
system of measures and it therefore has sup
ported, and will continue to support, the Re-
publican Party, 80 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 It's oft.
svowed principles.
1t presents weekly q summary of General
News and Political Intelligence, keeps q rec
ord of the Proceedings of Congress, and is tina
repository of a large portion Of the most i'm.
portant speeches delivered in that body.
Its Foreign and Domestic Correspondence il
carefully provided for, and its Literary Mscel.
lany, chiefly original, being supplied by many
OF the best writers Of the country, makes it en-
phatically a PAPER FOR THE FAMILY.
My subscribers have stood BY the Era hand.
somely. No paper can boast warmer or mora
steadfast friends. They have not forgotten
that, whatever the claims and merits of other
papers, the Era, in the face of imminent perils,
was the pioneer to Freedom of the Press in this
slaveholding District, and has been for eleven
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, so far from having
the support, it is constantly subjected TO the
opposition, Of strong local interests; 30 that its
only dependence is upon those enlightened
friends of Freedom, all over the country, who
appreciate the necessity of maintaining such =
sentinel on the outpost of Freedom.
G. BAILEY.
W1shin1ton n n None,nhor 1897