[davidjquackenbush]

Thanks. But there must be basic revenue numbers for the federal government. Where was the money collected in 1856, 1857, 1858, 59, etc. What ports collected how much? This would be objective data from the basic financial records of the national government. I assume, until told different, that the claim is that 80% of that money came in some recognizable way from tariffs paid by southerners. And I don't believe it.

[Non-Sequitur]

Stephen Wise posts the average net tariff collections from 15 ports in his book "Lifeline of the Confederacy: Blockade Running During the Civil War". The figures he gives are quoted from Exec. Doc. No. 33, 36th Congress, 1st Session, 1860. The figures given are:

New York - $35,155,452.75
Boston - $5,133,414.55
Philadelphia - $2,262,349.57
New Orleans - $2,120,058.76
Charleston - $299,339.43
Mobile - $118,027.99
Galveston - $92,417.72
Savannah - $89,157.18
Norfolk - $70,897.73
Richmond - $47,763.63
Wilmington, N.C. - $33,104.67
Pensacols - $3,577.60

It should be noted that the reason the collections were so small had nothing to do with an inability of ports to handle imports. New Orleans, after all, exported almost 1.8 million bales of cotton. Mobile exported almost half a million bales, Charleston over a quarter of a million bales. With the capacity to handle such large amounts of cargo, the reason why so few goods were imported through these ports obviously has to be that there was little demand for the imported goods. So 95% of all tariffs were paid in the Northern ports, by Northern merchants. Adams claims have no basis in fact.