SECOND-- THE BLOCKADE Vessels should be dispatched to the North Carolina coast where much Confederate commerce takes place in the sounds. They had read in a Norfolk paper where foreign supplies were reaching that town by way of the Dismal Swamp Canal.
Also, "Quite an active foreign trade, too, is being carried on at Wilmington and Beaufort."
THIRD-- "Third, why not give the Cotton States...something to do at home? there are scores of exposed and defenceless points along the Gulf coast where an army of liberation could be landed."
In New Orleans, "They know that a small force landed upon the lake approaches to the Crescent City could capture it in a few hours, and by cutting off the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad, and by throwing up intrenchments on that line, could hold it."
Alright, let's Tip Our Hand to the Rebels. --Old B-Runner
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