To obtain experienced and trusty seamen was easier to him in such a crisis than to give them a command.

The Atlantic and the ports of America were ruled at that time absolutely by President Lincoln.

The South had not a voice upon the sea.
The merchants of New York and Boston looked upon the war as something which concerned them very little.

Not a dream of any damage possibly to be inflicted on them, disturbed the serenity of their votes for the invasion of the South.

Their fleets entered harbour proudly; their marine swam the ocean unmolested.