New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-03-20
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The New LORI EsVeniiig ROst with all its anti /
slavery fanaticisnl, las always had sound views
the subject Of a Just commercial policy. Alone,
Of all the Abolition organs Of the North, it has
oembattea manfully against high and dscrimin- /
ating tariffs. Alone, amid the howlings Of ts asso-
eiata lahorers in the cause of Black aud Red Re |
pUhlicanism, it has defended and upheld the true
policy of the nation III respect of duties on I'M
ports and the general laws ofrevenue.
Accordingly, we are not surprised to see the
alarm exhibited by the Post in regard to the rails
ing of revenue for the Northern Union. Contrast |
ing the high rates of duty in the Morrill, Tariff bill
with the low rates of the Southern Confederacy,
that paper reaches the not unnatural but very rea
sonabe conclusion that the great bulk of the future
imports of tie country will come to the ports of
the Southern Gonfederacy instead of those of the
North. The Post, after deEnolishing the absurditT
of some of its political allies that duties goods
imported into the Southern States be collected
at sea by armed vessels-of-war, shows that unless
the Northern Congress abolishes its now imaginary
ports of entry in the seeded States, the Northern
Union is likely to be almost entirely cut of from its
former revenues.
The way of it is simple. A New York importer,
for instance will have his cargo landed at Charles
ton or Savannah pay the duties of the Southern
jConfederaoy, which are only about one-third as
much as those of the North, and then reship his
goods to New York. Inasmuch as the Northern
| Confederacy foolishly refuses to recognize the
Southern States as out of the Union, no duties can
| be collected on goods carried to New York from
! Charleston. Thus instead of paying thirty per
cent, the importer get his goods by paying ten
per cent. to the South, with only the riing addi-
/ tim Of the cost Of carriage between the two ports.
| When New York importer, by paying fifty thous-
ana dollars at Charleston, can get the same mers
| chandise for which he woud have to pay one hum
i dred and fifty thousand at New York, we hardly
think his patriotism will prove strong enough to
| resist the temptation
| The consequence will be, importations will be
| made through the Southern ports. But in that
event, the Northern Union will be deprived of all
revenue Whatever: for there is no doubt that that
agrarian measure, a Homestead bill, will be adopt
ed, and thus the public lands, so far revenue is
concerned, will be utterly worthless.
A scale of expenditure, to suit the magnificent
ideas Of William Fl. Seward, viii require not less
than one hundred millions Of dollars year. Where
it isto come from is the rub; and it is a rub which
the Evening Post has the sagaety to see is a very
serious one. No Government of civilized people on
earth can be administered without money, and Ed
mund Burkes aphorism that the revenue is the
State y contains considerably more truth than
poetry. And yet we see the Administration at
Washington pareelling out Cabinet Offices foreign
missions, Offices of the civil service and all other
sorts and legion of hungry place-seekers swarm
ing ground the Departments like buzzards around
carcass Just as if the Treasury was full 10 over
flowing when the truth is it is as empty as posi-
| BILE, the credit of the Union was never lower,
l. a.
| bluer or more dismal. Possibly these gentlemen
are disnterested patriots who would scorn to
cept pay for their services to the country. On no
other supposition can their eager scramble for
Office be explained. They will be luckier than
there any present reason to suppose, if they
reap anything more substantial than glory for their
services
Bat the proposition of the Evening Post to abolish
the Southern ports of entry will hardly avail to
meet the difficulty. Tn that event The Northern
Government would have to establish line of Gus.
ton-houses all along the barder-an expedient that
wonld probably cost more than it would come to.
When the old Union existed, the people of the
South submitted for the sake of the Union, to the
unjust and oppressive burdens imposed upon them
by high tariffs. The Evening Post, We will frankly
admit always protested against the policy and was
South is beyond the clutches Of a Union which
taxed Southern industry for the benefit of North
ern manufacturers and capitalists, and the extrava
gancies of q corrupt and prodgal Federal Admins
tration, she intends to stay beyond it. The North
will probably find out, before many months, what
pecuniary loss it has sustained by its ofcous inter.
meddling with domestic institution which in no
respect concerned that section except that it bene-
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people of the South were willing to purchase
domestic peace and security, and an equality of
political rights, by paying than their proper
ton of the enormous eXactions Of the Federal
Government They were not even allowed to do
this They were required not only to contribute to
raise eighty millions of dollars per annum, but they
were to be crippled and broken down by an anti
slavery crusade, destroying the institution which
enabled the South to export so heavily, and thus,
by corresponding imports, furnish the means by
which the annual revenue was raised.
| The day will come, we believe, when the North
will bitterly regret the folly Of its suicidal course
| If Spain, in consequence of the existence of
slavery in Cuba, were so to offend the people of
| that island, from whc!: the mother-country de-
rfges prfncely reverue, as 10 cause them to seek
security and repose n political independence, the
| treme folly and madness. The case is still
stronger with us; for the South vas not distant
| colony, but an integral part of the Union, at
| tached to the North by natural and artificial ties,
i strong aud apparently indissoluble. Yet in every
i conceivable mode we have been plundered of our
property and prevented from carrying it into the
Territories; domestic affairs have been invaded
4 BY Abolition emissaries, and President elected
i who has proclaimed that the public mind must
i rest in the belief that slavery is 10 be ultimately
4 eStinguished before there can be any settlement
i of this question. Driven to resistance, We have
| established q Government of our own, and the
/ North now begins to see what has been its loss
Forgetting that the real wealth of the nation con
sisted of the exports which were the product Of
Il Southern industry they have not been content to
let that industry alone, but must needs make war
upon it and offend the Southern people by con
tinued aggression, insult and conunely. If the
consequences are fatal 10 them they have nobody
but themselves to blame. Let them rest assured
that the Confederate States will never again be in
their power.
j Treasury CIRouLAR.-We are indebted to Col
lector Hatch for copy of the circular instructions
issued by Hon. G. G. Memmipger, Secretary of tht
1 Treasury in reference to mportations by steamer
and other craft, on the Mississippi river and it
/ frny, po;nta havnnd he linta Of tt