[PeaRidge]

Brojoker said this to you: “... some Northern newspapers expressed such concerns.

“But none called for war to redress the concern.”

He must have missed this one.

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.”d

Sounds like calling for war to me. How about you?

[HangUpNow]

He [BroJoeK] must have missed this one.

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.”

Sounds like calling for war to me. How about you?

THAT just left a mark. To BroJoeK, that NYT economic editor was only joking. To Diogenes' point that this war was in large part an issue over economic factors, WHICH "editor" wrote this ed-op? AN ECONOMIC EDITOR.

BJK misses EVERYTHING but his stock "history" of myths and fairy tales. I'm waiting for his post where northern "historians" claimed, "Lee would have nuked Washington DC IF he had one."

[BroJoeK]

PeaBrain: "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.'
Sounds like calling for war to me.
How about you?"

Knowing your love of quoting things out of context, I'd want to see those words in their full setting.
But if it indeed turns out that the New York Times, then as now, was utterly insane... well what can I say?

My best guess would be that the alleged words you quote here were preceded by other words along the lines of, "If the Confederacy insists on war, and starts war, then..."