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he was going to put a total naval blockade on them nevertheless.
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Now, foreign countries, especially Great Britain,
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will look at this and say,
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"Well you may not secession
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you may not think is constitutional in your country
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and you may not call the confederacy a belligerent,
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but you sure as hell are treating them like one."
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At any rate,
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a blockade around that entire coastline will never be easy.
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And we know that it was very porous in the first year,
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even into the second year of the war,
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through 1862 very porous.