Ha ha ha ha ha!
Where was the tariff applied, on the outbound ship or the inbound one? If you want to argue that the profits from exports facilitated the purchase of imports that’s fine, but you simply can’t make a dollar to dollar comparison.
By the way, how do you suppose Southerners felt about protective tariffs on sugar? Who wrote the tariff of 1857?
Then how did the U.S. collect $102.3 million in tariff revenue in 1863 without the Southern cotton exports?
“If you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body.”
- Abe Lincoln
No, wait that was Andrew Jackson, son of Tennessee.