The tariff was applied equally throughout the country and consumers in the North were impacted just as much as consumers in the South.
The cotton and tobacco economy of the south gained nothing from the protective tariffs.
Sure they did. They benefitted on the 2 cent per pound tariff on raw cotton, the tariff on tobacco products, the tariff on turpentine and naval stores.
The South had lost the political clout to put in place a funding solution more to their benefit...
A funding solution like what?
...or to put a stop to the spending on transportation projects that primarily supported the west and northeast.
Transportation projects like what?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_improvements
A funding solution like what?
Since the majority of our federal revenues don't currently come from tariffs, apparently there were other possible solutions.