[Ditto]

Again, you don't know how the packet system worked in this era. Everything was set up to trans-ship from New York. It benefitted the Northern shipping industry the most to do it that way, and yes, *THEY* ran the packet shipping too.

Yes, I understand how the packet business worked. Foreign ships could enter any American port they wanted, but they could not sail from one American port to another American port. If I'm a British shipping company and I am shipping lots of goods to Southern customers, I would ship them directly to Charleston or New Orleans, unload those goods pay the tariffs and then load cotton and take it back to jolly ol’ Liverpool. I wouldn't ship all of those goods destined for Southern customers to New York unless I really didn’t have that much Southern business and the vast majority of my customers were in the North.

So tell us how the South paid 75% of Federal taxes.

[DiogenesLamp]

Yes, I understand how the packet business worked. Foreign ships could enter any American port they wanted, but they could not sail from one American port to another American port. If I'm a British shipping company and I am shipping lots of goods to Southern customers, I would ship them directly to Charleston or New Orleans, unload those goods pay the tariffs and then load cotton and take it back to jolly ol’ Liverpool. I wouldn't ship all of those goods destined for Southern customers to New York unless I really didn’t have that much Southern business and the vast majority of my customers were in the North.

The distribution system was set up with New York as the central hub. Cargo from Europe might be something needed in Mobile, but not needed in New Orleans. It was illegal for foreign ships to trade in multiple American ports, so if they didn't have products needed in New Orleans, they couldn't off load them.

The packet system took care of the problem of matching cargoes to customers, and so it was just easier for ships to unload at central warehouses in New York, and the packet system, which could unload anything at any port in America, could divide cargos by needs in each port cities.

You are trying to use the complexity of the system to deny the truth of how everything would work *AFTER* secession in the absence of a war.

Once the CSA was it's own separate country, the transport hub for all Southern bound cargo (Which would be 3/4ths of the trade cargo from Europe) would be relocated from New York to some convenient Southern port, perhaps Charleston, or one in Virginia. From there, Southern based packet systems would have carried cargo to all other ports according to their needs.

And initially, all shipping could be foreign owned and crewed, thus creating an immediate savings for everyone paying the exorbitant Northern shipping cotsts.

So tell us how the South paid 75% of Federal taxes.

If you don't understand it by now, I fear you don't have the mental capacity to grasp it. Either that, or the necessary level of honesty to admit it.