There are some difficulties attending the collection of the revenue in the seceding states which it will be well to look at attentively…Revenue from duties must be collected in the ports of the rebel states, or the ports must be closed to importations from abroad, is generally admitted. If neither of these things be done, our revenue laws are substantially repealed; the sources which supply our treasury will be dried up; we shall have no money to carry on the government, the nation will become bankrupt before the next crop of corn is ripe…What, then, is left for our government? Shall we let the seceding states repeal the revenue laws for the whole Union in this manner? Or will the President call a special session of Congress to do what the last unwisely failed to do—to abolish all ports of entry in the seceding states?[