New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-08-01
PROSP ECTUS
OF THE
NEW n ATI0NAL ERA
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Editor.

The New NATIONAL ERA will partake of a two.
fold nature--that ofan Advocate and an Educator
As an Advocate, it will assert and maintain ever,
right pertaining to the American citizen, indie
pendent Of race, color, or accident of birth I,
will demand the recognition of these rights
wherever the Constitution extends or the ma.
tiona ensign waves As an Educator its col
ums will be an especial medium for the effective
diffusion of right principles and much needed in.
structon, and for the ncueation ofthose habits OF
industry, economy, and selfreliance which con.
duce to Independent manhood, and give VITALITY
and energy to free government. insuring in return
blessings TO the governed.
While the editors ofthe New NATIoSAL Err. ar.
colored men, and the contributors will be mainly
colored, yet the columns viii be open for the
discussion OF all questions of vital Importance tc
the country by any of its citizens Comnupica
tons suitable for publication in these columns
are solicited from our friends in all parts of III,
country, especially in the Southern States
THE POLITICAL DEPARTMENT.
Upon all questions involving the especial inter
ests Of the colOred American citizen, the simpls
rule of equal justice for all men will govern the
policy ofthe New NATIONAL ERA. Ii vii! demand
the recognition Of no right for one citizen which
it will not freely accord TO every other. 1t will
oppose any attempt to confer privileges upon
class, that are withheld from the humblest citizen
in the land. 1t will demand for every citizen
person and property in every State and Territory
of the National Union
! The NEW NATIONAL EEA will take high ground
upon all public questions, and labor to inspire
oneness or purpose and encourage unity OF
action, especially among the newly eniranchised
people Of the Reconstructed States. Remem-
| bernS the past history of the Republican party,
| and recognizing what it has done for the colored
people Of the nation, the NEW NATIONAL ERA
VIII give its hearty support to that party without
reserve. This pledge of fidelity to the Repub.
can party is given under the conviction, and
with the assurance, that in the future, as in the
past, that party will be the seadtast and inhexi-
BILE support of those principles of justice and
liberty which have now become a rart Of the
organic law OF the land.
THE EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT.
By education the people of q free Government,
such as ours is intended to be, are better quail.
he'd TO discharge their duties to the State,
and to one another. The nation will ever hnd
Its surest safeguard in the intelligence of its
voting masses, and the journal which would pro.
mote the highest good of government and people
must lend its energies and its power to the work
of educating that people. Especially is the
agency of the press needed by that portion OF
the people, coIored and white, who either
| in slavery or under the ban of its blighting in.
fuences, have been deprived of the opportunities
enjoyed by their more favored brethren of the
free States.
THE INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT..
The industrial interests OF the colored peosh
will claim and receive large share of our at.
tention.
The New NATIONAL ERA will be made desi
rable visitor for the family and the freside, and
we earnestly appea! to our friends everywhere
to aid us by their subscriptions and their iuilu
euCe.
The subscri rton price of the NEw NATIONAL
Era will be 81. 50 a year fer single subscriptions,
or copies for Sl0 in advance
Address FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Jr,
Lock Box 81, Washington, ID. C.