The mere presence of a presumably hostile force at the entrance to one of your major ports is itself a deterrent of trade. Nobody wants to be the first to learn that they may be fired upon by a change in policy that occurred while they were crossing the Atlantic.
Have you never heard of the "Sword of Damocles"? Same principle.
Northern newspapers did not run the country.
They influenced the people, and who can say that what is editorial opinion one day is not going to be National policy the next? Certainly the Chicago Newspapers got the war for which they called.
And yet trade was not deterred. Ships kept entering and leaving Charleston right up until the time the Confederacy started the war.
Have you never heard of the "Sword of Damocles"? Same principle.
Only if you're looking for an excuse to start a war. Which the Confederacy was.
They influenced the people, and who can say that what is editorial opinion one day is not going to be National policy the next? Certainly the Chicago Newspapers got the war for which they called.
So did the Southern newspapers.