One proclaimed, but not made effective.
1812. The paper blockades, which have justly occasioned so much irritation, are now abandoned.—Boston-Gazette, July 20.
1861. How long, think you, will the great Naval Powers of Europe permit you to impede their free intercourse with their best customers for their various fabrics, and to stop the supplies of the great staple [cotton] which is the most important basis of their manufacturing industry, by a mere paper blockade?—Mr. Slidell, in taking leave of the U.S. Senate: O. J. Victor, ‘The History … of the Southern Rebellion,’ i. 342.
1863. Lord John Russell, Letter to Mr. Mason (N.E.D.).
