Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-05-02
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Inc Second Kinney expedition We have
every reason to believe that the proceeding.
to stop the second Kinney expedition, recently
undertaken in New York, had their origin
here, and were based by the Government ON
the representations of the Nicaraguan and
otner Central American Ministers, backed by
such evidence as the United States law officers
IN New York city have gathered there
Under existing circumstances, We do not
perceive how our Government can permit any
such enterprise TO leave q port of the United
States, even though its leaders NAV not now
contemplate revolutionary ends or arriving
out with their followers The plan is to take
from four to six hundred armed men from
American cities Into Nicaragua, to work the
nlres- lnere was to have been quite enough
oil them to Get the weak government Of Mica.
ragua at defiance, if its laws or regulations
should prove dis.asteful to them. All expo
rience Of such colonization from the United
States, saows that Americans going out after
that fashion, cannot and wilknot live peaeea.
bly, with the Central Americans, and under
their law: 1t is well known too, that Mica
rsgua is not In such an Industrial condition "a
to admit the hope that the proposed army Of
ccfonists can support themselves there by
labor. So they must live, for some time at
least, by the right OF the strongest, as, II the
mines they propose to work would yield them
q livelihood, they would surely have been
worked by the natives. Nicaragua's govern
ment Is In an unsettled state, and it is very
certain that these cOlonists would join one fac
non or the other, giving the faction they
might join the power to rule They would
thus speedily have the real government In
their hands.
NOW all this is IN direct conflict with the
obligations OF the United States under the
Clayton Bulwer treaty, in which we bind our.
selves not to make settlements in Central
America or in any other manner to interfere
IN the political Affairs TO their Americanisa-
tom Of either of the Central American States.
10 this hour We have diFpuse with England
founded on our allegation that she has failed
70 observed her similar obligations under the
Clayton Bulwer treaty, continuing to hold the
iasnd OF Rustan, (the key TO the command of
the commerce of the Caribbean Seal and her
o'ner settlements on the Central American
coasts, which this Government contends vere
10 have been 40 andoned according To the
treaty. If these cOlOnists are permitted to
60 out there and in any manner Sc. the weak
Government Of Nicaragua at defiance or inter.
fere to mould the future of its affairs, q strong
argument will thus be accorded to England To
persevere in failing to observe the treaty.
Our commerce in that direction is fast in.
crsssing, and the uninterrupted right of way
for the passage Of our citizens over the two
Central American routes to California is nov
= matter Of the first national importance. Fol
its insurance fer all time, ID is absolutely ne
cessary that Britain shall, sooner OF later
carry cut her obligations under the treaty. So
We take it for granted that our Government
will, under no circumstances, permit anything