Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-03-15

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Shall we have am Extra Session OF
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j 1t rs .demonstratabiy impossible for the
President Ito carry out the policy pro-
claimed in his inaugural until laws, arc
passed clothing him with additional pow
ers. Before heis ten days in Office he has
become convinced of his inability to "hold,
possess, and occupy" Fort Sumter, and in
all probability is about to give orders for
its evacuation. The President is bound to
execute the law in pursuance of the meth
E,odE which the law proyides. Where the
law supplies him with no machinery for
its due enforcement, it is not for him to
ASSUME any Illegal nuthority. No new
ship OF war can be built and equipped, no
new regiment can be raised, no militia can
be called into service, or volunteers ac-
cepted, nor any money be appropriated for
these or any other objects cxcept in pur-
snRnce of acts of Congress, If the Presi-
dent finds himself encompassed with in
tsurlnountahle practical difficulties when
he undertakes to hold the forts and other
public property in the seeded States, be
wltfnd the duty of. collecting the revenue,
under existing laws, not less embarrassing
and imprnclicable.
z Tho new tariff net, passed at the late
session of Congress, goes into operation
the first of next month The rates OF du-
ties 1t charges nre considerably higher
than the rates charged the Southern
gontederncy. lf the lutjes under the
Morrill, tariff are collected only in the 10y
a. States, and goods are admitted under
lower rates into the rebel States; tits easy
to see that the revenue system of the cotlfl.
try will be Immediately broken down.
The importaiOns of foreign goods will be
made through southern ports, and thence
tdistributed over the country to the ruin of
the revenue. To admit dutiable goods
Into Charleston, Savannah, Mobile and
New Orleans untaxed, or more lightly
taxed, would tend 70 divert the whole i'm
port 'tradeio of the country tuto those ports,
as there is no possibility, under existing
laws of preventing their distribution
70 every part Of, the United States. Even
If Congress had authorized the Confedcr-
ate Suites to be belted about with COR
don of custom houses, to pFeyent snug
Eglthg across the line would be diticult,
but, in the present absence of any obsta-
Gle, 1t would have free play. The duties,
therefore, HRa5l be collected, or the revenue
system of the country is demolished.
The revenue, then, must be collected, or
Il 3ne government gSS 1l dies OF StTcPhS But col
!sStsg.how l:snsSl NOT by the methods pro-
Y'agu LOT oy the existing 4a|s, for the
Hu1notlues .t o. rebel States Will not
have to be sent TO the ports of the rebel
States from abroad, and mn army at each
Eport wonld be necessary to protect them An
the discharge of their duties IL Mir. Lin
coin lacks the means to reinforce Fort
oumteri nc certainly lacks troops sufficient
10 protect revenue officers in 1.-THE South
ern ports OF entry. Besides. it is contrary
to his policy, as announced in the inangur-
a. to send strange Oticials into tho rebel
states The revenue, then, cannot be col
lected in those. States on land. It,must be
Fcollected outside the hnrbor5, or nowhere.
crude notions Respecting the powers Of the
President in this NATTER Many people
reason as il the President had nothing to
do but to order a-Yessel of war to turn
pbacSS ships bound to southern ports, AID
compel them to. carry their cargoes to some
loyal State and pay the duties,l hut the
I resident has not only no such power, but
mot even Congress can confer it. Bya
tprOvision of the Constitution a vessel
bound to the ports of one slate cannot be
required to enter or5pay duties in those OF
another. So long as the ports of entry are
Continued in the rebel states, the duties
must beicollected in the states to which
vessels are hound; and it requires the ac-
tion of Congress either to abolish the ports,
or to authorize tlle revenue to be collected
fatsea outside of them. We cannot see,
therefore, how the government is 10 get
on, unless President Lincoln. shall, at an
early day, call an extra session of Congress.
ito cloEAez him with the powers which he
lacks TO enable him to collect the revenue.
l. II an eHtrn session is called, tt might