, 1861-03-19
What Shall be done for a Revenue.

[From the n. 7. Evening Post. !.
I:S9here ars some difficulties attendiugstht
3-coEtctlon Of the revtnue in The eecedfrS
3 aSVs which it will be well to lock at atten
lively.
y1Hat either tho revenue from duttes nina,
| bapollected In The ports Of the rebel States
| oEthe ports must be closed to tmpOrtatjnni
ftpm abro ID, is generally admitted. .Hneithcl
| ok:thfse things be done Cur revenue laws an
sNh9td ntially repealed; tho sources which 6uu.
lsP1Wour treasury wilt be dried up; we shall
fhhse no money to carry On: tho government
4sthe nation will: become bankrupt before: nc
next crop Of corn u; ripe: There VIII be no.
thing to furnish means Of: subsistence to The
| army nothing to keep our navy afoat; nothing
to pay the salaries Of the public officers; the
| PRESENT order Of things must come to dead
STOP: Allow -Eailroad Iron to be entered at Sae
vannah with the duty Of ten per cent, which
| is al1 that the Southern Eonfederacy think OF
1aying on imported goods, and not an ounce
mJre would be imported at New York the
}=railWays- -Hnuld he supplied from the Southern
ports. Let cotton: goods, let weolen fabrics,
let the various manufactures Of iron and steel,
be entered freely at Galveston, ut The great port
at the mouth OF the Aississippi;-at Mobile. at
! SaTannah and at Charleston, and they would
be Immediately sent up the rivers and carried
l'on the railways TO the rtmotest parts of tho
Union. Nay, they would be sent directly from
these ports by Sta to Baltimore, Philadelphia,
be supplied with their silks and laces from The
same quarter. 'Fhe shoe shops would be fur.
nished with their from the FIerch
etalls, and the hatte1s'' ehcps wou1l be fllled
with the york Of French artisans which have
never paid penny to the government, When
these and other kinds Of merchandise were
once IN the c untry, there would be no yay to
prevent their free circulation snd sale ia eTety
part Of the. United States. TIE mighty Mis-
slssippi and its great tributar;es the long rail-
ways. reachirE from one extremity Of the
Union to the other, the active feet of mer-
chant vessels employed in our eoastius trade,
would rapidly convey the untax4d merchan-
great domain. The government, without spe-
elal authorization from Congress, will have no
power TO create aline Of cuftom:houseg alony
the North. Carolina and Tennessee frontier, or
to cover the Arkansas border with stations Of
revenue officers to:intercspt the eont1at and
sta. The whole country. would be given up
to IN Immense system Ut smuggling, which.
on near Iwo Thousand miles Of. coast, would
meet with no obstacle, or interruption, OF dis
couraggment, =:
70 prottct the interests of the federal treas-
ury something must be done The general
expectation Seems to be that the duties Wilt.
be collected on board of armed vessels at The
different ports Of entry in the seeding States,
are our readers aware Whist fleet ttis would
require There are seven, collection districts
in the little State Of Florida alone: tllere are
four 1n Alabama. at every port there must b.
= collector, with his army Of appraisers, cierhu,
e, ,eSamners, inspectors, ;Weishert, gaugerE,
o1lcer anu his staff Of entry clerks. five col
lect the revenue IN this manner, with fleet Al
every port and corps OF custom:house ut1|: =.
GERS on board, it will cost us q great dem more
than all we shall get.
,. But eau the revenue be thus collectcds ? The
importers arriving in the Southern larbora
will know how to address the Custom Uonsa
of1ieets- "1Ne have cargo j they viii nat~.
rally soy, g on which We do not care to nay du-
lies just at present; we must deposit il in hh;I
for The term during which We are
permitted TO do 50 ty law" What will the
officers Of the customs do in that case The !
government has no longer any warehouses in
Vesscl would neither be proper nor . euffi- !
;lently spacious repository for the goods. The |
iuhes IN thst case cannot be COLLECTED: and
me collector will be puzzled to know whether I
o let the ship proceed to her port or to detain
We happen to know that there arc importing
,onses at this moment preparing to tase sd.
'antage Of this opening for 81 unencumbered
rlde. They are getting ready to convey their
:argoes to Charleston or Savannah the poods
vii pc landed there, and then brought coast-
VRe to New York, where, being imporlatious
rom 1 port within the Union, they viii be sub
ect to no duty.
, What, then, is left for OUT governments
'hall We let the seeding States repeal Tie
eVe':ue laws for the whole Union in this man.
erf " viii the government choose to con-
ider OIL foreign commerce destined for those
oFts where We have no custom houses. and
Q collectors, IS contraba1d, and stop it,Whan
1fs1inS to enter the collection districts Irn1n
'hich cur authorities have been EXPELLED = l..
r Will the President call special session of
congress to do what The last unwisely failed
do-to abolish all ports Of entry In tho Sc