[PeaRidge]

Finally, these newspapers and many others began to call for blockade....an act of war recognized internationally.

“...That either the revenue from duties must be collected in the ports of the rebel states, or the port 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 If neither of these things be done, our revenue laws are substantially repealed; the sources which supply our treasury will be dried up; we shall have no money to carry on the government; the nation will become bankrupt before the next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. There will be nothing to furnish means of subsistence to the army; nothing to keep our navy afloat; nothing to pay the salaries of public officers; the present order of things must come to a dead stop....”

~New York Evening Post, March 1861

“Blockade Southern Ports. With no protective tariff, European goods will under-price Northern goods in Southern markets. Cotton for Northern mills will be charged an export tax. This will cripple the clothing industries and make British mills prosper. Finally, the great inland waterways, the Mississippi, the Missouri, and the Ohio Rivers will be subject to Southern tolls”

~Philadelphia Press, March 18, 1861

“...The government...is bound to collect the revenue duties on every ship which enters a Southern port. Its revenue cutters can and will hover out of reach of the shore guns round the mouth of the ports, and compel the payment of the Federal tribute....”

~The Living Age, Boston, March 23, 1861.

Still no mention of slavery as a cause for the blockade.

ONLY MONEY.

[CodeToad]

Money was the reason Lincoln went into the war. He was a railroad attorney and represented them as president. They needed the union together. Lincoln had previously written about the States had the right to leave the union and his inaugural address said he could care less about abolishing slavery. It was all about railroad money.

[DiogenesLamp]

Do you know of that article which said the Guns of Ft. Sumter should be turned on Charleston to stop them from using that port for commerce?

That is not an idle threat, and it makes it very clear why the Confederates did not want the Union turning those guns on Charleston.

[BroJoeK]

PeaRidge: "~New York Evening Post, March 1861"

Discontinued publication in 1851.

PeaRidge: "~~Philadelphia Press, March 18, 1861"

No record of such a publication.

PeaRidge: "~The Living Age, Boston, March 23, 1861."

Still no record of such a publication.

PeaRidge: "Still no mention of slavery as a cause for the blockade. ONLY MONEY."

FRiend, any child in school learns that slavery was the cause of secession and rebellion the cause of blockade.

How did you manage to forget that?