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NORTH ATLANTIC BLOCKADING SQUADRON.
will be granted by the Treasury Department, and all exports permitted
by him (General Dix) will be allowed by the Navy to pass.
As was suggested in our meeting yesterday, there must be a misap-
prehension on this subject. So long as the blockade is enforced there
can be no trade or commerce with Norfolk by individuals or firms. The
Government can seize, or in any other way, perhaps, procure materials
to export on the permit of the Secretaries of War, Treasury, or Navy,
but this does not admit of commerce or private traffic which is incon-
sistent with blockade. General Dix, for instance, has granted the
following pass:
HEADQUARTERS,
Fortress Monroe, October 24, 1862.
The schooner William Penn, with a cargo of staves and tobacco, has permission to
come from Norfolk to this port, where she will be cleared for a Northern port.
JOHN A. Dix,
Major-General.
This proceeding Acting Rear-Admiral Lee could not recognize, nor
is such traffic admissible while the proclamation of the President
declaring the blockade remains in force and unmodified.
Our opinions, I believe, coincide on this subject, though there must
have been some misunderstanding as to the authority of General Dix
to set aside the restrictions on exports. If traffic can consistently be
allowed be should get his clearance and permit from the Secretary of
the Treasury, it appears to me, from Norfolk instead of Hampton Roads,
which is not a port. This would relieve the Blockading Squadron of
difficulty.
I confess I do not see how traffic can, in good faith, be permitted to
any private parties, except in derogation of the blockade. Trade and
commerce must be open to all or closed to all.
I have addressed this communication in justice to Acting Rear-
Admiral Lee, who has no instructions to pass private vessels with cargo
for export except on permit from the head of the Department, although
admitting all army supplies; consequently the William Penn is detained.
I am, respectfully, etc.,
GIDEON WELLES.
Hon. E. M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy to Acting Rear-Admiral Lee, U. S. Navy, approving his
course in the enforcement of the blockade.
NAVY DEPARTMENT, October 29, 1862.
SI: Yours of timhe 26th instant, and the copies of correspondence
enclosed in regard to the schoonerr William Penn, with a cargo of staves
and tobacco," which General Dix says "has permission to come from
Norfolk to this port (Fortress Monroe), where she will be cleared for a
Northern port," has been received, and your course in maintaining the
blockade is approved.
Until the blockade is raised or broken, or publicly modified, it must
be enforced in good faith by the Navy. Fortress Monroe is not a port of
entry, and clearances are not to be made from that point, which is, like
Norfolk, subject to blockade. If the Secretary of War or Treasury have
seized or obtained possession of staves or tobacco, or any other articles
which belong to the Government, and either of them have authorized
such articles to be exported, you will recognize their authority; but58
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