Some of Lincoln's cabinet objected to the move, saying it could be seen as a de facto recognition of the Confederate States of America as a soverign nation as countries do not blockade their own ports. (Lincoln refused to admit that the southern states were out of the Union.) Lincoln, however, was less interested in the legal ramifications of the war than in winning it and went ahead with it anyway.
The document was owned by a private collector who wishes to remain anonymous and had been exhibited recently at museums, including the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential; Museum and Library in Springfield, Illinois.
The single-page document directed Lincoln's secretary of state to"affix the Seal of the United States to a Proclamation setting on foot a Blockade of the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. This effectively declared war on the Confederacy.
It was later extended to the states of North Carolina and Virginia after they too seceded.
This Means War!! --Old B-Runner
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