The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-09-26
Diplomatic History-Pefry and souls.

The National Intelligeacer of late date
contains series Of papers which the Lnteui-
gencer says may properly be regarded as the
sequel to the famous Ostend Conference. The
papers are communicated by Horatio J. Perry
late Secretary of Legation to Spain and con-
sists of the letter of Mr.. Marcy to Mr.. Perry
dsnissing him from Office. Mr.. Perry's reply
thereto, and also reply of Mr.. Perry to the
articles in the Washington Union, during last
June, rejecting on Mr.. Perry's course as Sec
rotary. Mr.. Perry, in his letter to Mr.. Marcy,
defends the publication of his, (Perry's) letter
to the President in April last and for which
publication he was superseded in his official
position. he says that it was right and hi:
duty to address the President before the people
when the country had been for months on the
verge of war, and his ''weak voice had been
raised to warn the Government against being
conducted to dishonor by Minister deceived
and deceiving, and when, nevertheless, after
the return of the Minister, he and his policy
were found still to have weight enough in
their councils to make war then highly proba-
citizens regarded hostile measures almost as il
they had begun" Ifever the rigor of official
etiquette, says Mr.. Perry, ought to have been
neglected, it was then. And further, after the
Government had by its own act published tie
correspondence of the Late Minister to Spain,
Mr.. Soule, and the papers of the Ostend Con-
ference, covering the whole epoch referred to
in his Perry's) letter, publication of that was
necessary and proper.
The reply Of Mr.. Perry to the Union, which
is very long and elaborate, confirms the previ-
Gus disclosures as to the pacific disposition of
the Government of Spain towards the United
States, the apparent indisposition of the late
Minister Plenipotentiary, Mr. Soule, to effect
an amicable settlement of pending disputes,
and the successful efforts made by Mr.. Perry
after the withdrawal of the Minister, to OBJ
tain from the Spanish Government the con-
csssion of every claim or accumulation which
his superior officer had been instructed to press
upon the attention of that Government.
Mr.. Perry concludes his reply thus
The Cuban plantations, the wealth. and ease, and
influence set before me as the reward of my adhe-
sion to the plot of warl How little did the man
who did it comprehend the true heart of an
Americana / could forgive him personally for his
ignorance; but against his policy and his diploma
cy have labored as l ought 1t is true, my own
health and my little patrimony gone for the
present; but thank God, / believe l have had
enough of both to accomplish what it fell to my
part to do in the service of my country. ! be-
ic nd hat bo az &c
and justice with Spain is planted and VIII stand
aud will bear fruit. If am not mistaken, such is
already the will of the American people ; and if l
have contributed any thing, however little to the
better efforts of other citizens for that result,
content Personally the hour of repose was ne
cessary to me. had asked for it as a favor, and
even as a chastisement it is most welcome.
Weregret that our space does not permit us
to publish the correspondence in full. 1t pre-.
sents most striking picture of the corruption
of the present Administration-of its well laid
schemes to plunge the country into war with
Span-and of the baseness of Monsieur SOule
in lending himself as the ready tool to pro-
mote this damnable purpose. The patriotism
of Mr.. Perry, unawed by threats, and unse-
duced by bribes-choosing rather to sacrifice
his all in the service of his country, than to
touch the polluted bribes though ever 50 mag
nifcent, as the price of his honor and fidelity,
has saved the American people from being
drawn into the vortex of European war. The
Pierce Administration miscalculated the tenn
permanent of Mr.. Perry. For once the subtitle
wisdom of Marcy was at fault, and the pure
spirit of the patriotism of '76, slumbering in
the bosom of a subordinate, was awakened to
discomft and destroy his diabolical Schemes.
The American people are thus learning by
from day to day, that the perpe-
tuity of our institutions is only safe while their
administration is entrusted, not to the ambi-
tioas Red Republican fom France, with the
agrarian and flibuster principles of a Soule,
but to the pure American patriot, native and
to the manor born. Americans must and soiU
rule their own country.