Your continual fibbing amazes me, Walt. Newspaper reports came in constantly after the first year of Morrill about its impact on trade.
Peace feelers between the two governments throughout the ACW apparently have no discussion regarding tariffs whatsoever as a condition of reunion.
You are the one lying about these events and throwing up blue smoke and mirrors to hid the fact that your position is complete nonsense.
Walt
Sorry Walt, but the act of reunion was not the goal of the south. The Lincoln claimed it as his goal. That claim was unilateral and, for all practical purposes, was The Lincoln's only area upon which he would have anything but violent, bloody warfare. It is therefore absurd to conclude that, by not sharing in that goal of submitting to The Lincoln's unilaterally proclaimed condition for peace, the south had no interest in repealing the tariff.