[WhiskeyPapa]

Here is what leading secessionist Robert Toombs had to say...

As Aleck Stephens noted in November, 1860, Toombs voted for the tariff as it then stood, along with every other "southern man."

The tariff was simply not an important or compelling issue.

Walt

[GOPcapitalist]

As Aleck Stephens noted in November, 1860, Toombs voted for the tariff as it then stood, along with every other "southern man."

November you say? I find that unusual, Walt, considering that the Morrill bill was not voted on in the senate until February 1861.