Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1861-04-02
Collecting tac Revenues n. y. Post on
tic Difficulty.

COLLECTING Ihe ktNruUtS-hhc \. o BOst on
tic Difficulty.
The uutrieI difficulties Vi administering the govern
nru. are nov beginning to be felt by tie Rpu,lcan
1sty. Their theories are one by one laid aside
iprie5 adopted, which bu, a short month ago would
lae -net Of treason in their patriotic uos.rs The
me question Is the last bull they have taken by the
loras How to get riI Of it, orrouud it, with safety IS
question OF distressing moment. All the difficulties
h, surround This matter seem have very lately burst
on tie vision cf our co.empo5arics which lately had
o. l,r note bat--"ths public property must be heId-t
the hands Of the secesouis;s 10 mus; be retake1 tue
revenue must be collect d. the laws must be executed -
The n. Y Erpirg Post has taken the alarm, and points
OFT. with considerable amount Of saglcy, the difficult
ties which are involved After stating that duties must
either De collected in the ports Of the seeding States
these ports be closed importatons else the
laws will to all utens be rendered null and void it pro-
c1eds
The government, without special authorization from
Congress will have no power TO create line of custom
houses along the North Carolina aud Tennessee frontier
TO cover the Arkansas border with stations
officers 10 intercept the conraOaEcists. The whole
country would be given up to an immense system Of
smuggling which, on near two thousand miles Of coast
would meet wltl no obstacle interruption or dscOur-
sremeut What would MIR. Woodscrew Simmons, the
Rhode Island Senator who caused prohibition duty on
wood-crews 70 be inserted in the tariff which has Just
been passed by Congress, in order that single
mill might make al the wooden used in the Uni
Ted States and that Us fortunate might grow
rich "bevOnd the dream Of avarice'-what would this
uatroc and dsuterested legislator saw if cargOes
of untaxed wood screws to be brought from the
southern coast by our rivers and railways and on board
Of our coasug vessels and dispersed over all the
try and his hopes OF gain disappointed? hr. Simmons
would weep tears Of hickory.
To protect the interests Of Mr. Simmons in the first
place and those OF The Federal treasury in the next
omethiuc must be done. The general expectation
10 De that the duties will be collected on board OF armed
vessel. at the different ports Of entry in the seeding
States Are our readers aware what fleet this would
require There are collection districts in the little
state of Florida alone There are four in Alabama. At
every port there mast be a collector with his army of
lpprtis r. clerks, examiners, inspectors, weigher>,
sauccrs messurers ~; there must be a naval officer
and his staff OF entry clerks. The Morrill, tariff hw
ah;ch we have lust enacted will make larger number Of
these necessary than would have been required a
month ago. Where twenty men would have then an
,vcrcd she purpose thirty viii now be needed II We
collect the revenue in this manner, with et at every
port, aud corps Of Cusom-hoUse officers on board it
viii cost MS a great deal moe than We shall get.
But can the revenue be thus collecteds The import
ers arriving az the Southern harbors will know how to
address tcc custowaouse officers. I'VE have cargo,
r-ev viii naturally saw ION which do not to pay
GHes Gst no present; must deposit In the ware
houses tor the term during which permitted to do
by law What vii. the officers Of the customs do in
Jit case The government has longer any warehouses
e. the seeding ports The hold OF armed vessel would
neither be proper a spacious repository for the
goods The duties Ia that case cannot be collected and
the collector will be puzzled know whether to let the
ship proceed TO her port or to detain her.
We happen TO know that there importing houses
this preparing take advantage ofthis open
ing for unencumbered trade. They getting ready
q convey their clrgOes Charleston Savannah the
goods will be landed there and then brought coasswise
10 New York, whore, being importations from port
withiu the Union they will be subject TO duty.
The Tariff with It's strange formalities aad ingen
ioisy devised delays, forms additional nducement
pith them to take this course.
What then, is left for government? Shall we lei
the seeding States repeal the laws for the whole
Union in this manner: Or will the government choose
10 consider al foreign destined Tor those parts
where We have no custom houses and collectors.
coatraband and stop IT, when Offering TO enter the col
Lection districts from which authorities have been
pee6g Or will the President call special session OF
Congress 70 do what the last unwisey failed to do-to
abolish al ports -s~Slry in the seeding Statess