I'm not following. What does "OR" mean in this context?
Also, that's not the example of which I was thinking. There is some verbiage in one of the Newspapers editorials about using the guns of Ft. Sumter to destroy Charleston so as to prevent them using that port for trade.
I think it is just further down in the text of some of the Newspaper excerpts you have already posted. I remember stumbling on to it by finding some of those newspaper articles and reading through them further.
I guess a lot of these people arguing on behalf of the Union side aren't really aware of the fact that there were calls in the Union to use that fort to fire upon the City of Charleston to prevent trade.
And people wonder why they didn't want to put up with Union guns overlooking their harbor.
OR is commonly used to refer to the “Official Records of the War of Rebellion” compiled by the federal government.
https://ehistory.osu.edu/books/official-records
3/22/1861 The economic editor of the New York Times said,
“At once shut down every Southern port, destroy its commerce, and bring utter ruin on the Confederate States.”
This was another editor reversing his position of earlier in March when he declared that secession would not injure Northern commerce and prosperity.
He had earlier stated that the economies of the two sections were tied together and would stay together.
That was before the Confederate Tariff rates became known in the financial and governmental groups.