I notice that in every discussion about the civil war there are people who like to head straight for the well worn ruts of the propaganda they have been told.
Tariffs were only one part of it, and a focus on "tariffs" simply has the effect of causing people to ignore what would happen to New York's trade once the South got out from under the anti-competitive laws such as the Navigation Act of 1817, The Warehousing Act, Subsidies for Northern Shipping and other industries, and the Biased tariff system which heavily favored the North.
Just as people leap to make the war about "slavery", so too do they want to gravitate toward the "tariff" argument, because it is a distractor from the "Trade" threat that the South posed to those Industrial interests holding the reins of Washington DC.
Anything to ignore the real motives for why powerful people (Who are still F***ing running the nation today, but whom we now call the "establishment." ) would want to attack and destroy an independence movement.
First notice DiogenesLamp here wishes to draw our attention away from not just "slavery, slavery, slavery" but also "tariffs, tariffs, tariffs", towards what?
Well, towards those super-secret real reasons that nobody ever heard of before: the 1817 Navigation Act, the 1846 Warehousing Act, mail subsidies to a small number of high-tech steamers and oh yeah, "biased" tariffs.
But the real problem was none of those, DiogenesLamp tells us, rather was those evil, wicked, power hungry, oppressive, every-name-in-the-book, Northeastern "Industrial interests", previously called "power brokers" and "financial interests", but for today they are "Industrial interests".
And they are the "real reasons", regardless of what every Fire Eating secessionist ever wrote or said about it, DiogenesLamp just knows what was really behind it all.
How dos he know?
Well... he's just special, that's how.