New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-07-13
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Our merchant vessels are beginniug to turn up
missing. Tho report this morning is the over
hauling Of FIVE Northern vessels by name, and OF
an indcipits number unnamed, under the term
of "seyeral," some Of which were released, and
some sent into Southern ports, by Mr. Jei.
Davis's pirates. 1t is evident that these fellows
have got to sea recently for it il not in the ma.
ture of things that they could be out any length
of time ard be cruising about doing nothing
1t is possible that they believed in the blockade
which was proclaimed two months ago. and
tavs delayed going to sea TIL they saw they
could do 80 with impuDity. for want oil It's en-
forcement: but however this NAV be- our busi-
Dess is rather with the fact of their coming out
at last, than the motive which prompted them to
take the risk Of doing so.
The trouble, nevertheless, is that the blockade
is not efectuu and if the pirates did not know
it before, they find il out soon as they get
into the ofFng. The fact ia an encouragement
to them, and a damage to US, not only in the
pcstiye loss Of property, actual and contingent,
bat in tie effect IL is sure to have
| upon our foreign relations. England and France
are not bound to respect blockade which is
not enforced, and as we have chosen TO call it
by that term, wo must make it something more
than paper blockade il foreign ships are to re-
gard it. We must inevitably bring ourselves into
contempt if we permit theso pirates, who run
out Of Southern ports without let or intolerance,
10 prey upon our commerce with impuhlfy; aud
wc shall find presently that the daty Regected
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longer it is let alone. Piratical piot-bOats VIII
soon be reinforced by arned ships. by cur
latest dates from New Orleans We learn that tte
steamer Sumter with more than q hundred men
on board, all told, and armed accordingly, has
run the f eble blockade Of the Mississippi, aud
is of sea- She is a fool il she doesn't pick ny
the next California steamer with a million OF
gold on board; aud who will prevent her ! The
U. S. steamer at the mouth OF tie Mississippi
should have given chase TO her, aud never lave
relented till she had caught or sunk her. aud
why didn't she y Because sire must stop at her
post TO SEQ that nothing else runs Out-if she
Gun help il.
And yet the remedy is so simple. There are
slips enough in this poIt alone which, If put in
perfect blockade of tie whole Southern coast 1t
may us well DO acknowledged now that there ere
strong probabilities that the South A" means BUSH
"ness," and that having already helped herself
to number Of vessels Of one sort aud another,
some of which she only robbed and others she
TOOK cargOes aud all, che means to help herself
10 several more, and soseral more after that, in
Guiding California steamers and European steam
ers, aad anything else thGt is worth the taking.
Wouldn't it be well TO do something about it
We assure the Government-if it is tia, that
makes il Lesitate--thlt the merchants Of New
York are not such swinder- as The Journal Of
Commerce would persuade it they are, and that
if it viii call out sea militia it VIII be dealt
with fairly aud honoraby, ard as noble and
efficient feet be soon at sea as such n service
needs