NP, RD 8/16/1861

From the Richmond Dispatch
 
August 16, 1861
 
The Louisville blockade
   The Nashville Union takes what seems to us a correct view of a dispatch received from Louisville a few days ago. We quote a portion of the editorial:
   A dispatch from Louisville informs us that permits will not hereafter be required for the transportation of articles, not contraband of war, over the Nashville & Louisville {Louisville & Nashville} Railroad--such as produce, bagging and rope, fabrics, &c., &c. In other words, such articles as the would-be oppressors of the South can make a fair profit, by sending among us, and that are not particularly needed for war, they desire to force upon us. But such as they suppose we cannot well manage to dispense with, they pronounce to be unlawful and will not permit to reach us. Wherever they know we have an abundance of an article, or can find a substitute for it, they wish to force upon us the hateful competition of their trade.
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