[Green Knight]

Wouldn't that sort of defeat the whole point of allowing states to seceed? One thing to slap them with tariffs, but quite another thing to blockade them. And wouldn't that sort of thing eventually lead to a war, anyway? I doubt the CSA would've just taken that lying down.

[Paleo Conservative]

And wouldn't that sort of thing eventually lead to a war, anyway? I doubt the CSA would've just taken that lying down.

The CSA did not have a lot of people emloyed in maritime trades and lacked the nautical experience that New Englanders had. Winfield Scott wanted to primarily choke off the South's commerce through blockades and seizing control of the Mississippi River. If his stategy had been employed the Civil War might have been much less bloody.