[Non-Sequitur]

Are you quite sure of that?

I have seen nothing to make me believe otherwise.

[PeaRidge]

You said: "What do you mean ‘who paid for it’?... The budgets for the Navy Department and the War Department covered it (the cost of Union Navy ships and private vessels sent to Charleston and Pensacola Harbors).

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.”

So, you are in effect saying that if the Navy department did not have Congressionally approved funds for the action, then Lincoln would have violated the Constitution?

Well, that is precisely what he did, with the Secretary of State as an accomplice.