The Blockade at Louisville

Covington Journal, May 25, 1861

The Courier says "our ware houses are groaning with accumulating products, with no outlet owing to the blockade. Our boats are rotting at the wharves, and the boatmen have nothing to do.This is the result of Black Republican rule, or misrule."
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The "Courier" is the Louisville Courier Journal

It does seem to me that if you were a "boatsman" and you knew a blockage had been applied, your decision to stock your boat and head to the wharves may not have been a wise one. Perhaps I'm wrong, but it seems doubtful to me that they arrived at the wharves and suddenly realized there was a blockade and national crisis ongoing. I wonder what they really expected at that point.

What the Blockade is Doing for the South

Another Covington Journal article from May 18, 1861

The blockade is doing the South some service, if we are to believe some of its journals. The Richmond (VA) Dispatch says the restriction is working in an exactly opposite direction from that intended by LINCOLN - They are turning their attention to manufacturing, and thus making themselves independent of the North. The Dispatch hears of no less than four important manufactories - two of them being indispensable in time of war - which the blockade had taught them to produce themselves