Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “What is a Blockade?,” July 25, 1861

    Source citation
    “What is a Blockade?,” Fayetteville (NC) Observer, July 25, 1861, p. 3: 3.
    Newspaper: Publication
    Fayetteville Semi Weekly Observer
    Newspaper: Headline
    What is a Blockade?
    Newspaper: Page(s)
    3
    Newspaper: Column
    3
    Type
    Newspaper
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Transcriber
    Don Sailer, Dickinson College
    Transcription date
    The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.

    WHAT IS A BLOCKADE? – As it is important to know what England regards as a blockade, a New York paper publishes a letter from Fort Pickens, announcing the arrival there of a British frigate, whose commander exhibited instructions that no port is blocked efficiently if any vessel can enter or depart from it unknown to, or in spite of, the guardian men-of-war. And the escape of the third vessel from the blockading squadron signalizes the invalidity of the blockade.

    Of this a New York paper says: “This is specific and unmistakable; and under the latter rule the blockade of New Orleans, even by the confession of our own naval officers, who are maintaining at the mouths of the Mississippi a nominal surveillance, is invalid, may be declared so by Admiral Milne, and involves us in a difficulty little anticipated, but calculated to exert a most disastrous influence upon the present contest.”

    Huzza for that! England will thus be a market for our cotton and other produce after all.

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