Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-03-28
From the New York Evening Post.
What Shall be Done for Revenue ?

AVA
There are some difficulties attending the
collection of the revenue in the seeding
States, which it will be we'll to look at at
tentively.
That either the revenue from duties must
be collected in the ports of the rebel States,
or the ports must be closed to importations
from abroad, is generally admitted. If nei,
ther Of these things be done, our revenue
laws are substantially repealed; the sources
which supply our treasury will be dried up ;
we shall have no money to carry on the
government; the nation will become bank.
rupt before the next crop of corn is ripe -
There will be nothing to furnish means of
subsistence to the army; nothing to keep
our navy aAoat; nothing to pay the salaries
Of the public officers the present order of
things must come to a dead stop, Allow
railroad iron to be entered at Savannah
with the low duty of ten per cent, which is
all that the Southern Confederacy think Of
laying on imported goods, and not an ounce
more would be imported at New York; the
railways would be supplied from Southern
ports. Let cotton goods, let WOODEN fab
RIGS, let the various manufactures of iron
and steel be entered freely at Gal' eston, at
the great port at the mouth of the Mississip.
pi, at Mobile, at Savannah and at Charles.
ton, and they would be Immediately sent
up the rivers and carried on the railways to
the remotest parts of the Union. Nay, they
would be sent directly from these ports by
sea to Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York
and Boston. Shop-keepers would be sup.
piled with their silks and laces from the
same quarter. The shoe-shops would be
furnished with their assortments from the
French stalls, and the hatters' shops would
be filled with the work of French artisans
which have never paid penny to the Gov
erument. When these and other kinds of
merchandise were once in the country there
would be no way to prevent their free circu
lation and sale in every part of the United
States. The mighty Mississippi and its
great tributaries, the long railways reaching
from one extremity of the Union to the
other, the active feet of merchant vessels
employed in our coasting trade, would rap
idly convey the pntazed merchandise to the
most distant neighborioods of our great DO
main.
To protect the interests Of the Federal
Tresury something must be done. The gen.
eral expectation seems to be that duties will
be collected on board of armed vessels at
the different ports of entry in the seeding
States. Are our readers aware vhat fleet
this would require? There are seven col
lection districts in the little State of Flori-
da alone there are four in Alabama. At
every port there must be a collector, with
his army of appraisers, clerks, examiners,
inspectors, weighers, gaugers, measurers,
and so forth there must be Naval Officer
and his staff of entry clerks The Morrill,
tariff law, which we have just enacted, will
make larger number of all these necessa-
ry than would have been required month
ago. Where twenty men then would have
answered the purpose, thirty will now be
needed. If we collect the revenue in this
manner, with fleet at every port and
corps of custom house officers on board, it
will cost us u great deal more than all we
shall get.
But can the revenue be thus collected !?
The importers arriving at the Southern
harbors will know how to address the Gus.