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George --

While the tariff issue cannot be easily dismissed, the long-term adverse impact of high protective rates began after passage of the Morrill Tariff, not before. Debates in Southern secession conventions mention slavery and related issues far more often than anything else. In my reading of Alabama newspapers from the 1859-61 period, I've yet to see a single editorial on tariffs.

Senator Robert Tombs of Georgia, who spoke in favor of tariffs during the 1840s, strongly opposed the Morrill Tariff. Evidently Alexander Stephens of Georgia disagreed with Tombs on the Morrill Tariff.

Mike Scruggs speaks of Henry Clay as if he was a leader of the Northern political coalition. Of course Henry Clay was a planter and slaveholder from Kentucky. Until the admission of the western states and West Virginia, the Republican Party wasn't in position to dominate national politics. The era of Northern political dominance effectively began when Congressmen from the Southern states left Washington in 1861.

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