The racism of Slavery, the protection, of, perpetuation of, the expansion of slavery into new territories was what motivated the Confederate States to form. A lot of ugly references to Southerner Daughters marrying blacks, blacks running the governments, blacks being equal to whites. The anti-black equality propaganda mill in the South was used to whip up secession support in the South. In Texas, and other places they were willing to hunt down and kill real or imagined abolitionists over the issue, not over the tariff issue.
Granted, many in the North didn’t want black equalization, but they didn’t cause the split of the country, and go to war over the issue.
Again I ask, what was it that was made so expensive to the common folk that made them to want to illegally break up the Union, form their own Country, and start a war over it? How many plows did your and my ancestors have to buy in a life time? How many piano’s did our ancestors need? Seems the South was not willing to break away from the one thing that made them rich (Cotton & slaves) and produce those “imported” items themselves.
Were they like so many folk today, wanting something for nothing?
And what of the Confederate States constitution, Section 9, paragraph 6 states:
"No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any State, except by a vote of two-thirds of both houses." The US. Constitution didn’t have that!
http://www.tutorgig.info/ed/Confederate_war_finance#Revenue_from_international_trade
“A similar source of funds was to be the tax on exports of cotton. However, in addition to the difficulties associated with the blockade, the self-imposed embargo on cotton meant that for all practical purposes the tax was completely ineffective as a fund raiser.”
If the South was willing to go to war over tariffs, WHY did they make it a point to place them place them on THEIR imported AND exported goods?
Kevin Dally