YOU said: “It was a sarcastic answer to an idiotic question. What do you mean ‘who paid for it’? The federal government, of course. The budgets for the Navy Department and the War Department covered it. You want to imply that Lincoln violated the Constitution by appropriating money for the resupply effort instead of Congress. Such an implication is too ludicrous to deserve a reasonable answer.”
Are you quite sure of that?
I have seen nothing to make me believe otherwise.