The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-03-11

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Is COLLECTION OF THE REVENUE WARP
Our neighbors of the Republican press are verv
fond OF boasting that the revenues will be col
lected, and the laws will be enforced; and no,o we
snail know whether we have a government or not
They are in a state of Egyptian darkness when
they assert that the collection of the revenues is
not open war, and they know nothing of the Con
stitution or laws of the United States, or of the
mode OF collecting the revenue, when they saw that
the revenues can be collected at other ports or
by vessels of war stationed outside the Southern
harbors.
There is but one mode in which the revenues can
De collected at the ports of the seeding States and
that Is by taking and holding possession of each
port with sufficient army. Any other mode is
not only illegal, but it is practically impossible
=, some OF our Republican friends have thought
that man ot-war could be stationed at Charleston
and Savannah, and New Orleans, and that the
vessels bound to those harbOrs could be ordered to
some loyal port of entry at the North to DISCHARGE
tneir cargoes This would be in direct violation
OF the Constitution, which provides Art l. sec Q.
Nor shall vessels bound to or from one State ha
Obliged to enter, clear or pay duties in another"
we VIII take the case of vessel bound from
Liverpool to Charleston She must enter at
charleston. How will our Republican friends COL
lect the duties? Oh, nan-of-war will he Stationed
OFT the port to collect them. That would he illag.l
TOR there is law to allow such use of vessas of
war, or to allow the revenues to be collected in
such manner on the high seas: moreover II yonI5
be wholly unprecedented
See what must be done to collect the duties bv
government, you gentlemen who are roing T.,
Know no1 whether you have government or not.
me or the first steps is that the master of A for
eiSn vessel must present his papers to the consul
IN the port. Are all the foreign consus to live nm
BOARD our ships OF war, the open sea- atCharles-
ton, or off the Tybee Light, at the mouth of the
81 SaV annah, and oil the Balize, at New Orleans
The master must also swear TO his papers at tho
Custom House. Then every owner or consionaa
OF every lot of goods must make his oath and enter
his goods Then the goods must be unladen and
examined by the appraisers, one parcel in ten Of
most classes of goods and every parcel of Soma
classes of goods. BY the new Morrill, tariff hill
which fixes many of the duties by weights and mea
sares, every article OF many classes of goods must
be weighed and measured. BY both the old and
the new tariff bills, the owners have the rirht to
nave their goods kept in the Government store
paid. "
These are few only of the practical duties con-
nected with the collection of the revenue.
Will any of our contemporaries, the editor of the
respectable Daily for instance, who is so deluhted
with the prospects before us tell US ho,g all this is
to be done?
Can ship-ofwar lie off the harbor of Charleston
IN the open sea, or off the mouth of the Savannah.
or the Baize, in the Gulf of Mexico? Those coasts
are rather stormy, we hear. Will all the consuls
live in the ships?
Can all the owners of every package of merchau
dlse go fourteen miles out from Charleston or
twenty from Savannah or one hundred from New
Orleans, to enter their goods and pay their duties
on board ship? Sea-sick merchants swearing be-
fore sea'sick collectors! Have YOU provided float.
Ing warehouses, where the goods can be unladen,
examined and appraised? Have YOU accommoda.
tons tor the army of clerks, appraisers and in
Spectors of the Custom House? Where are your
bonded warehouses for storing the goods until the
duties paid?
Why pursue these details. Every one but the
editor OF the Advertiser will acknowledge that the
cohection OF duties from ship of war would be
impossible. But ii duties were paid, at then :?
mn tNna-
1t to be supposed that foreign vessels, bound to
new orleans, or any other Southern port will
submit to double exactions, pay duties to Gov
ernment vessels which cannot even enter the ports
at winch they pretend to collect duties? We repeat
tnat this cry OF enforcing the laws and colectinc
the revenues is cheat and delusion which the Re.
publican press keep up only to blind the public
from the real question OF the hour which is peace
or war. F
The sooner the Republican press and politicians
condescend to talk common sense and open their
eyes to the facts, the sooner we shall come to the
real duties of the North and see that we must take
proper conciliatory position if We wish to retain
the border States, or bring back the Gulf States
War is out of the question. Mr.. Lincoln does
not intend it. He has no ships, no soldiers no
money to carry on war with. The first cry of war
would find the North, with the exception of few
fanatics, against him, and the Border States would
rise at once against the Government and overthrow
II. The whole heart of the people is against war;
Mr.. Lincoln cannot proclaim it, there is no Con-
gress to proclaim it, and the sooner the Repub
cans give up the shallow boast, and silly threat
t9at they will coerce the South, the better for
.9ein, and for the community. 1t is only
=. M piece with the same folly, which induced the
EE.ngs OF England to call themselves Kings of
france Tor centuries after they had ceased to hold
ioo' Vi soh on the other side of the channel.
hoss OF AN AMERICAN YEssEL.-The London pa
Peis " tne bremen contain the particulars of the
loss OF the bark Tonquin, of Bath, Maine.
London, Feb. l9.-Report of Henry Smith. one
of the two sole survivors of the wreck of the
American bark Tonouin, lost in the gale of Satur-
day week. The captain (Batchelder], his wife. and
eleven hands were lost. The ship sailed from
Greenock for Brazils with cargo of railway iron.
and had to put into Lamash Bay, whence she
sailed on the Sth inst. Same evening the cargo
began to shift, and the ship making water the
captain ordered to lay the ship to. When about Is
or 20 miles off Wicklow Head, the ship went down.
One boat was got out, with four hands and the
master; but the ship rolling over caught foul of
the boat and brought her down. Two of the hands,
Henry Smith and Frederick Peterson, got on the
fore-deck house, where they remained till Monday
morning, at o'clock, when they were drawn on
shore at Mizzen Head, about six miles south of
wicklow Head. Henry Smith was seaman on
board the bark Tonquin.
The New York Journal of Commerce says:-The
hotes are doing rather a better business than at
any time since the Presidential election They
eaten lying visit from hocks of politicians re.
turning from Washington, and are beginning to
Gsrlve little benefit from the Western spring trade
IN aneTe are some customers from Virginia, Tennes-
sye, S, kentucky, North Carolina, and other Border
slave states; but one from the "Southern Confed.
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