You can scream it from the rooftops but you are wrong. A tax on imports is not the same as a tax on exports. And what the hell do you mean that the North got their hands on all the money? The tariff raised federal revenues. The money didn’t go into northern pockets.
Your Lost Cause mania is way over the top. Way over.
You are wishful thinking. You know very well it is exactly the same value being taxed. You are desperate to not believe who was creating the money, and who was taking the money, because it shows the people you thought were heroes motivated by noble ideas, to be just nasty corrupt thieves, motivated by greed and power.
You don't want that to be true, but the evidence shows it was.
They didn't fight the war for slaves. They didn't fight the war about slaves. They fought the war because the South was cutting them out of 700 million dollars per year.
That war was fought for the same reasons all wars are fought. Resources and money.
Here is what Charles Dickens, a staunch abolitionist, had to say on the matter.
March 16, 1862
"I take the facts of the American quarrel to stand thus. Slavery has in reality nothing on earth to do with it, in any kind of association with any generous or chivalrous sentiment on the part of the North. But the North having gradually got to itself the making of the laws and the settlement of the tariffs, and having taxed the South most abominably for its own advantage, began to see, as the country grew, that unless it advocated the laying down of a geographical line beyond which slavery should not extend, the South would necessarily recover it's old political power, and be able to help itself a little in the adjustment of the commercial affairs.Every reasonable creature may know, if willing, that the North hates the Negro, and until it was convenient to make a pretense that sympathy with him was the cause of the War, it hated the Abolitionists and derided them up hill and down dale. For the rest, there's not a pins difference between the two parties. They will both rant and lie and fight until they come to a compromise; and the slave may be thrown into that compromise or thrown out, just as it happens."
Isn't that interesting? He saying the exact same thing in 1862, that I am saying now!