I didn't insuiate anything. I gave you a link that would take you to this.
The Confederate Tariff rates were announced on March 11, 1861. They quickly became public knowledge....not in May as you would insinuate.
3/18/1861 It took only a week for Northern newspapers to understand the meaning of the low Confederate Tariff announced the week earlier in Montgomery.
The Boston Transcript wrote that week,
“It does not require extraordinary sagacity to perceive that trade is perhaps the controlling motive operating to prevent the return of the seceding States to the Union.
“Alleged grievances in regard to slavery were originally the causes for the separation of the cotton States; but it is apparent that the people of the principal seceding states are now for commercial independence. They dream that the centers of traffic can be changed from Northern to Southern ports.
“The merchants of New Orleans, Charleston, and Savannah are possessed with the idea that New York, Boston, and Philadelphia may be shorn, in the future, of their mercantile greatness, by a revenue system verging upon free trade.
“If the Southern Confederation is allowed to carry out a policy by which only a nominal duty is laid upon imports, no doubt the business of the chief Northern cities will be seriously injured thereby…
“The difference is so great between the tariff of the Union and that of the Confederated States, that the entire Northwest must find it to their advantage to purchase their imported goods at New Orleans rather than at New York. In addition to this, the manufacturing interest of the country will suffer from the increased importations resulting from low duties.“
“The government would be false to its obligations if this state of things were not provided against.”
I don't see any truth to your point about the Morrill Tariff since it passed the Senate and became law the week before the Confederate Tariff was announced.
You said: “Are you saying that Norther Shipping interests reliant of foreign trade wanted high tariffs? That northern textile mills reliant on southern cotton wanted trade cut off? That northern bankers who had lent hundreds of millions to southern planters didn't want to be repaid? And even northern iron mills in Pennsylvania who most benefited from high tariffs rates on British pig iron wanted to close their markets in the south on manufactured goods?”
I am saying that the North did not want an independent South because of the economic competition.
I didn't insuiate anything. I gave you a link that would take you to this.