[quadrant]

If I'm not mistaken - and I may be - the original Morrill Tariff was passed during the administration of James Buchanan.

[rockrr]

It passed in the House but got bottled up in the senate.

[BroJoeK]

quadrant: "If I'm not mistaken - and I may be - the original Morrill Tariff was passed during the administration of James Buchanan."

The Morrill Tariff bill was introduced and tabled in the first session of the 36th Congress, before the election of 1860.
After the 1860 elections, when low-tariff Southern senators left Congress, the Morrill Tariff was brought out again, modified and passed with significantly higher rates.

President Buchanan signed the Morrill Tariff law on his last day in office, March 4, 1861.

In 1860, Republicans in general, and Lincoln particularly, did support the Morrill Tariff, nearly all Deep South Dems opposed and Northern Dems opposed by about two to one.