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The Daily Dispatch: February 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], Recollections of a Bull Run prisoner. (search)
Seward and the stone Blockades. Since the British Lion showed his teeth to Seward in the affair of the Trent, it needs but a wag of his mighty tail to bring the cunning and cowardly Premier of Lincoln to his knees. In reply to some gentle but significant inquiries from Lord Lyons with regard to the closing of the ports of Charleston, Mr Seward hastens to say that the obstructions were never designed to be permanent, but temporary, and that they would all be removed as soon as the war is over. Of course this, like his declaration denying that Wilkes arrested the Southern Commissioners in compliance with the wishes of the Lincoln Government, is a deliberate falsehood. The whole Yankee press gloated with an almost incredible malignity over the sinking of the stone fleet as forever sealing up the port of Charleston from the commerce of the world Their very Commander, Davis, who sunk the stone fleet, boasted that in a short time the port would be destroyed forever. And now, havin