THE NATIVE AMERICAN.
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We have received the first number Of this pa
per, published under the auspices of the Native
American Association of this city. The open
ing address Of Mr.. Brent, the editor, gives an
earnest Of the spirit and ability with which the
paper will be conducted. He eschews all party
politics-al local jealousies-all sectional feel
ngs, political, religious and geographical; and
cleaves to the one main object of securing and
elevating Native American principles in the ad-
ministration of the Government This is as it
should be-for the subject is one that has nothing
to do with political religious parties. It is
pre-emnently and exclusively an American sub
lject-and one, too, of inappreciable importance.


How can we hope to maintain American prin-
ciples Of civil and political liberty, but by Anne
rican feelings and opinions?


The address Of the committee appointed by the
Association to explain to the people of the United
States its objects, and the mode in which it
proposes to accomplish them, is an able paper,
and deserves to be extensively circulated. 1t is
an epitome of important facts and wise reflections,
which it would be well fors every native Ameri-
can citizen to study attentively. The time. is
fully come when the most urgent necessity de-


mands that something be done to save our insti-


utions from the fate which has befallen all others


Of similar character. Rome might, perhaps, have


still been mistress of the world, had she pre-


served in their original purity the high privile-


ges of Roman citizens hip, proudly and patheti-


cally and eloquenty apostrophized by her great


orator in his speech against the tyrant of Sicily.


We trust that the able and jealous editor of the


Native American, and those who support him in


his efforts will not look to the right nor the left,


but press forward to the accomplishment of their


great design, and by restoring the fast falling prn


cples Of AMERICAN liberty, restore again the proud


honors Of American citizenship, and give assu-


rance to the world that our experiment of self


government shall be fairly tested upon its original


principles.