New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-04-18
PROSPECTUS
OF THE
new NATIONAL ERA.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Editor.

The New NATIONAL ERA will partake of two.
fold nature--that of an Advocate and an Educator.
As an Advocate, it will assert and maintain every
right pertaining to the American citizen, indie.
pendent of race, color, or accident of birth 1t
will demand the recognition of these rights
wherever the Constitution extends or the ma.
tional ensign waves. As an Educator. its col
ums will be an especial medium for the effective
diffusion OF right principles and much -needed in
struction and for the incubation ofthose habits OF
industry, economy, and sef-reliance 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 NATIONAL ERA are
colored men, and the contributors will be mainly
colored, yet the columns will be open for the
discussion of all questions of vital importance to
the country by any of its citizens Communica-
tons suitable for publication in these columns,
are solicited from our friends in all parts of the
country, especially in the Southern States.
THE POLITICAL DEPARTMENT.
Upon all questions involving the especial inter
ests of the colored American citizen, the simple
rule of equal justice for all men will govern the
policy of the New NATIONAL ERA. 1t will 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 withhold from the humbest citizen
in the land 1t will demand for every citizen
equality before the law, and full protection OF
person and property in every State and Territory
of the National Union.
The New NATIONAL ERA will take high ground
upon all public questions, and labor to inspire
oneness or purpose and encourage unity OF
action, especially among the newly enfranchised
people of the Reconstructed States. Remem-
bering the past history of the Republican party,
and recognizing what 1t has done for the colored
people of the nation, the NEW NATIONAL ERA
will give its hearty support to that party without
| reserve. This pledge of fidelity to the Repubh-
| can party is given under the conviction, and
with the assurance that in the future, as in the
past, that party will be the steadiast and iniexi
| BILE support Of those principles of justice and
| liberty which have now become part of the
| organic law of the land.
THE EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT.
| By education the people of free Government,
such as ours is intended to be, are better quail
fed to discharge their duties to the State,
and to one another. The nation will ever find
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, colored and white, who, either
in slavery or under the ban of its blighting in
| huences, 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 people
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 appeal to our friends everywhere
to aid us by their subscriptions and their inhu
| ence.
The subscription price of the New NATIONAL
ERA will be So. so year for single subscriptions,
or copies for SO, in advance.
| Address FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Jr.,
Lock Box 81, Washington, d. C.