Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-02-09

JUDGE BoUGLAS' LETTER.
We publish this morning a letter fron
Judge DOUGLAS to ourselves, which a to
hand ca last evening, through The hands Of J..
KNOX WAtKER, Esq "a Union man. to whom
it was Forwarded to this city, with the request
that &C be delivered to US. Tt was written-as
viii be sesu-for the purpose OF correcting a
rumor, to which we gave currency upon the
authority Of GEO. n. SANDERS, Of New York,
touching bis views upon the policy of the with
drawsl Of the Border States from the North
orn COnfederaey.
We differ from Mr.. DoUeLAs radically in the
opinion be expresses regarding both the right
and the policy Of secession. Our views, as far
as they confietwith bis. are weIlknown to our
readers and they need no useless repetition.
AS far az the weight Of bis authority is con-
%c-rned, the present is one Of those peculiar in
stances in which bis testimony, like that Of the
witness upon the stand, may be taken egGiHst
bis section, but is OF little avail when given
for it. We have no idea, however, that any
one whose views are maturei upon the great
question at issue before tie South, eau be in
fusnced by this manifesto, owing to the palpa-
bly, false premises upon which its assertions
are founded. We cheerfully submit it to the
perusal Of our readers, though we have once
before made the correction It demands. It
may be proper to observe that it was received
after making the comments appearing this
morning, upon the disingsnuous and discount
eous article which was published in the col
umns Of yesterdays issue Of the Memphis
BsLstin.
THE QUESTION or CLEARANCEs
Prom SOUTHERN PORTS.
The question Of clearing foreign vessels
from the ports OF the seeded States, which
was at first deemed so difficult Of solution,
seems to be in a fair way to be settled entirely
satisfactorily to the friends OF the southern
movement. The course Of the British minis
ter at Washington, in ordering English vessels
to sail with clearanees frsm the de Jaeio gov
ernmsnts Of the seeded States, is now exhib-
ting its Importance along the seaboard Of the
gulf States in the alscrity With which the
suggestion has been followed up by vessels OF
every nation. The Charleston aad New Or
leans papers, which come to US every day,
represent that shipping from those ports under
The new governments continues as secure and
uninterrupted as ever. The rumors flooding
the country concerning the stagnatiOn Of CON-
merce aud the paralization Of trade have been
exaggerated beyond degree for The base Fur-
pose Of party capital.
knowledge Of the simple manner IN which
A vessel is cleared, Il well understood, would
be a sufficient basis upon which to build the
hopes Of a legal and constitutional settle
msnt. The following explanation Of it, as
given By the New Orleans Buusiin, puts The
whole matter in a light easily TO be understood.
By q law Of Congress, says the Ballstia,
passed in 1917, it is incumbent on every cap
tain OF a foreign ship, arriving in a pOrJ Of
the United States, to deposit his ships regis
ter and other papers with the consul of bis
nation, in whose custody they must remain
until the ship is again clerred for sea. A
breach Of This enactment subjects the captain
to prescott on while II the consul neglect to
fulfH bis duty as custodian, be too is Liable
to be sued for penalties, varying from FIVE
hundred to Eve thousand dollars. Briefly,
then, he consul gives a certificates in the first
i~nstarce that the vessel halls bona fife from
the country which be represents, and that the
captain has lodged bis credentials with him..
Gsrnished with this, The new conner is admit
ted to entry. In the second place, when the
ship is about to sail again and is cleared at
the ~customhouse, the captain claims back
bis register from the consul, together with an
oyher certificate that be " hath entered and
cleared the said vessel according 10 law, and
in conformity With the regulations Of this
consulsts.7 Now it happens that in neither
Of these printed forms is there any ment on
whatever Of the Federal Government, OF allu-
sion even to the "ysar Of independence" where
in they may be dated. They are British forms,
not American, and adhere to the old formula,
0auno Dominf." The first one issued is ad-
dressed simply, on the face OF it, to tho COL
lector Of the port. The second certificate, in
a general sense alone, is all hat is requisite,
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