The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-03-18
The Northern and Southern TariGs-GrOans
Of the Brit0ns-Brilliant Prospects for the

The New York Post BLACK Republican, is
in most dismal state OF mind on the revenue
question. The morrill, Tariff VS.. Free
Southern Tariff, 1t reasons, will not raise
revenue. ." The Government it says, 'with-
out special authorization from Congress, will
have no power 10 create a line of custom
houses along the North Carolina and Tennes-
see from tier, or to cover the Arkansas border
with stations of revenue officers to intercept
the contrabandists. The whole country
would be given up to an immense system of
smuggling, which, on near two thousand
miles of coast, would meet with no obstacle,
or interruption, or encouragement" The
Post then shows up the impracticability OF
collec ting the dut ties on board of armed YES
sells. There are so many collection districts in
the seeded States, and so many officials re-
Quired by the new law at each port, that the
collecting will cost more than IL comes to. 1t
proceeds:
But can the revenue be thus collected' The
importers arriving at the Southern harbors will
know how to address the Custom House officers.
We have a cargo, they will naturally say, on
which do not care to pay duties Just at present;
during which We are permitted to do SO by law ,
What will the officers OF the customs DO in that
case' The Government has no longer any ware,
houses in the seeding ports. The hold of an
armed vessel would neither be proper nor a sui
feiently spacious repository for the goods: The
duties in that case cannot be collected and the
Collector will be puzzled to know whether to lei
the ship proceed to her port or to detain her.
We happen TO kno,c that there importing house,
at this moment preparing 10 take ddrdnfdge OF this open
ing for unencumbercd trade. They are getting
ready to convey their cargoes to Charleston o.
Savannah; the goods will be landed there, ant
then brough eoastwise to New York, where, be
ing importations from port within the Union
they will be subject to no duty. The new tariff
with IT'S strange formalties and ingeniously de
vised delays, forms additional inducement W It'll
them TO take this course
The New York Herald says:
"Tho adoption of the old United States tariff b,
the Southern Confederacy strikes heavy blow
ut the foreign commerce OF New I ork and thu
other Northern cities. The Morrill, tariff of tn
Northern Government imposes nearly double thu
duties on some articles of merchandise which tn
Southern tariff imposes, and in many cases tn
rates amount to an absolute prohibition. The re
suit of this must necessarily be to drive importa
tions from this city and send them intothe port
OF the South. Once landed in the country at a low
rate of duty, these goods will soon find their wa.
across the borders into the Northern States, an
smuggling will be extensively carried on no
can the Government prevent II. The object of tn
Morrill, tariff Is TO benefit the facturers of tn
North'by protective impost ON foreign goods
but the actual consequence OF 1t will be such
reduction of the revenue as will render additional
loans necessary TO carry on the Government.
will utterly destroy the commerce of the oTther
cities; and, moreover, by driving the seven Gull
States out of the Union, and the eight horde
States very probably after them, We have reduce
to a considerable extent the market for our i'm
portatons. Thus the effect of the two tariffs upo
the North will be to reduce the revenues of tn
Government, to destroy the foreign trade of til
Atlantic citiea, and TO create an endless system
smuggling on the border line between the Mort
and South. The advantageous results OF all thi
to the Southern COnfederacy are unnecessary t
dwell upop,''