Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-08-30
NUMBER l29

ss1rJ5 o+ -, tension Of the blockade beeause a rot
eOuIu hoe Se eHetcuaily blocka5eJ - ~ fo-'
IONS; ,eS o, ng Z while at the same time ems.
had entered" It is verv ir,-.S % sOss IS u tney
sWer should be rightly understoo5 - as an
on the other side Of the Atlantic 80 p Iere And
soul s We APpfehend, be very much 7,,is
STOOD II ne we're supposed to have - us l-S.HesE
the project Of collecting duties in the uygos tAs
IS altogether uDjustiiable By any art;ci eGean
OF nations. What he evidently meant ~ y. We Az
ms words convey, is that if & blOckad;.o- 80 l-s
should allow any ship to enter the 6Is., lo5es
port by reason Of payment of duties the no.,
from that moment raised and all the resi- 80 ~, -
world would have from that time forth \ -. nc
go INTO the bloekaded port without hiadrance9 ~
benlnd this. however, lies the further oussti
whether the federal government has a subsfanf;o
right to collect duties at sea. II such right az
lsss' II may be worth its while to forego the bloet
sde, and rest upon the right to collect customs
sTeaslhg ships attempting 70 evade payment not AZ
9iocEede breakers, but smugglers. We appre-
bend thst such a right was never basrd az ",
are dealing with the claim of right As matter Of
conveyance, or arrangement we NAV Of cours.
coheet our Dover duties at Calais or we naay nav
t e Lses IOfK duties AZ Liverpool; bat. as mat
yer OF right, the federal government has inst "A
noen real pretenee to place floating custom hsuses
N sue Drltlsn enamel as OFF Charleston harbor or
~ uie GuiI OF Mexico There is net one OF the
many authorltles upon maritime law who does not
Sgree That every possible dominion over the ssa
must De enjoyed as an appendage 70 the dominion
1ser the iano' and as inseparabe from the land
mere have been conflicts Of opinion AZ IN bovz "a,
s1s uoahnlon extends out to sea. A cannon shot
IRON the shore has been the most aensral rnaas1ro
ment and the common assent now seems 10 10 t5s.
me uOnlnlon OF the country extends "a far a. the
sea can fairly be commanded from The Land Vte1
the dominion Of the land is lost of course The an
pendant dominion Of the sea goes with 4. Tie
shore waters Of the Atlantic and me C,rIf ~ lfor
are the highway Of atoms subject only to the pe
alar rights OF the owners of the shores concsSa5
~ ~ mem Ior me protection Of those shores NOap
gag He possession Of the land Is IN Otsr Boais a.
federal nary has no riqht assre eses,f \; -. .;,S
ne rest q mankind o. as beigersrts To station a sbiD
Of war there and to enforce sayuenr from siDs ~
commerce would be simply an act Of piracy. NotOnlV
. is PlAin ~ nlerhanonal law, but It Is plain cOIn-
non sense. For what does the merchant nav duties
apon ms goods For liberty to trade in IT,, lsT5.
y foreign prince or government. Butean thsse
ioaung custom houses give hum such liberty Thsv
an only allow him TO pass them unhsrmed
When he has paid their duss to the fedora. ofce-s
70 must be excluded from Charleston or New Or
cans, or he may be compelled 20 pay duties over
gam to the de fact0 government of the country 10
Ehlch ne ls bound before be il 4llOWed to enter
ms would obviously be the actual fact But again
nc merchant pays duties for protection in his deal
ngs' and Tor tAe REMEDIES Of law existing in the
ountry to which he Carries his adventure Do
nese Union ohcers profess To give him this Those
Ulcers cannot 90 there; they are alien enemies:
hey have no more means of facilitating commercial
peratlons there than they have in Paris or Vienna
comes, then, simply to this-thIt these Union
lips OF war have no more right 10 the waters OF
he Southern Ports than any other ship-af>war has
% have no power Of beneAttiBg a snip beyond that
letting Il go by uuiniured. So long as they are
Zoe Sadlng he ports they within their rights as
egerents, directly they begin to levy duties upon
Re ships OF neutrals they exceed their rights
These things are very psia. There Is no aaaSisu-
~ about them, and that is quite as well under
ood on the other side Of the Atlantic as on this.
e can aHord to handy laugh at any quantity Of
eWspsper nonsense about eOnquering Canada and
lb2, bat these are serious interests, to be dealt
Ith strictly as matters of business.