Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-06-12
SPIRIT OF THE MoRNTra PRESS.

The Union holds up to popular reprehen-
sion the alleged Know-Nothing doctrine, that
Government, Constitution, and all, must perish,
that stands in the way Of the triumph of its
views of progress. Still continuing its discus
sion of the Perry case with the inteIiigsncer,
the Union says:
ave were not 60 far wrong, however. in the
supposition that it was the removal OF their
frieni Perry, and not the exposure of their
tergiveTsatiOns, which disturbed the placidity
IF our neighbOrs. When they come to speak
on this matter, they become " serious" and
f snkly admit that they see in Mr. Perry's
''recall at this particular time" cause for ore
greet" Our mistake, then, was in supposing
they were tTTitated, whereas they were only
sorry. We acknowledge the error, and have
only to regret that we cannot sympsthize with
them in their distress. They admit that Mr.
Perry was guilty of an indiscretion" in ad-
dression his letter through their paper to tho
President; but they think this small official
indecOrum ought to have been overloo ked
in consideration Of the great public services
which Mr. Perry had rendered il Spain
As We are unable to appreciate those services
like our neighbors, We cannot see in them an Y
reason for overlooking the fndiscretion.' which
they enabled Dir. Perry to consumma.e
through their columns We think their scr.
SOT. therefore, is legitimate, both because
Mr. Perry was so iniiScreet as to write such a
letter, and because his friends OF the Inteili.
sencer were so unfortunate as 10 yield 10 his
rsques. &c give it publicity, and thereby to
consunnate bis 'indiscretiOn' That We may
give them all the comfort in our power, how
ever, we will add that there was 10 connex;on
between the appearance OF Mr. SouIe's last
letter snd Mr.. Perry recall. The recall OF
Mr. Perry was a fixed fact as SOON az his let.
ter appeared in the National Intclligencer,
and tbs announcement was only delayed until
his successor could be selected
The InttIIsgeneer's New York correspond
ens says:
'sThe prosecutors in the Kinney affair are
completely hOnplusssd. The Colonel has dig.
appeared, and all efforts to discover bis where.
Gbcuts have thus far failed. Indeed. it il az.
sorted thGt he left the city two days ago in a
vessel for Central America. and TIA. the men
forming thu association of which be is the
head have besn quietly shipped for their FL.
dorado By ci;cuitous routes during the past
fortnight; so that the Government! biockads Of
the Steamship United States has been entire.
ly objectless, and having, / presume, arrived
at that conclusion, the authorities last evening
withdrew tie vessels that had formed the cor
don areuId she suspected steamer
II strikes u, from what We hear, that Col
Kinney and his CO adventures will not be
more successful in departing from any other
port in the United States than from New York.
IL they have silently slipped away from Nov
York to rendezvous az some other point to de-
part for Central America, il is probably from
4 point IN Florida, CT which two suspicious
but wsll-watohed vessels have been lying for
como time. We feel assured that they will
not be permitted to weigh anchor unless rcgu.
larry and satisfactorily cleared from the port
of which they were at last ai7ices Bat even
IL they get CT from some other point Of the
territory oftii5 Govern usnt, they Will be duly
taken care Of on the Central American coast,
unless (which is an impOsaibili;y) the papers
Of ihsir vessel or vessels are in all respects
satisfactory. Tie way Of the transgressor is
hard, and the chances are twenty to one that
his schemes fail Of success in the long run.