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To: DiogenesLamp
Could it be those laws that routed everything to New York?

No, because those laws didn't exist.

Tariff collection in Southern ports was low because there was no demand for imports in the South. But I said imports and exports. In the same year where over $35 million in tariff was collected in New York - due, you claim, to those laws - over 248,000 bales of cotton were exported from New York. That same year 1.745 million bales were exported from New Orleans, over 456,400 bales were exported from Mobile, and over 302,000 bales were exported from Savannah. Charleston came behind New York with around 215,000 bales exported. Leaving aside for the moment the question of why that law you claim routed all imports through New York didn't route exports through New York as well, it shows that Charleston wasn't the most important port in the South, or the second most important, or the third. It was the fourth most important port, as Guantanamo is the fourth or fifth most important port in Cuba. So why was it worth it for Davis to start his war over?

487 posted on 02/19/2018 5:09:35 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg; DiogenesLamp; editor-surveyor
DoodleDawg: "In the same year where over $35 million in tariff was collected in New York - due, you claim, to those laws -

Great post, thanks for the numbers.
Sadly, they will only "sow confusion" in minds like editor-surveyor, and even more sadly they won't sow any "confusion" in DiogenesLamps' mind, because he's not capable of such feelings.

489 posted on 02/20/2018 4:34:16 AM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: DoodleDawg
No, because those laws didn't exist.

Covered this several times, and since you won't listen, I don't see any point in going over it again, though I will make a brief recap for the benefit of others.

Navigation Act of 1817, coupled with the Tariff laws, coupled with New York being 800 miles closer to the European shipping, pretty much covers why New York cornered the vast majority of all trade.

Take away the Navigation act of 1817 and the requirement to pay High Tariff's in Charleston (under the Union) and the picture of the resulting trade changes dramatically.

New York loses, and everyone else gains.

503 posted on 02/20/2018 7:44:39 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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