If that were true, statements such as the following would not exist:
"Sir, I have presented these views in regard to this tariff for the purpose of showing how it will operate upon the whole country; for the purpose of showing how it will operate upon the non-slaveholding States themselves. I have said nothing about my own State [Virginia] or my own section. Within the last four or five years, my State has been reviving; the tide of emigration, which was getting out to a great degree, has ceased; the statistics will show that she has been increasing in population and wealth. But pass this bill, and you send a blight over that land; the tide of emigration will commence - I fear to flow outward - once more, and we shall begin to decline and retrograde, instead of advancing, as I had fondly hoped we should do. And what I say of my own State I may justly say of the other southern States. But, sir, I do not press that view of the subject. I know that here we are too weak to resist or to defend ourselves; those who sympathize with our wrongs are too weak to help us; those who are strong enough to help us do not sympathize with our wrongs, or whatever we may suffer under it. No, sir; this bill will pass. And let it pass into the statute-book; let it pass into history, that we may know how it is that the South has been dealt with when New England and Pennsylvania held the power to deal with her interests." - Sen. Robert M T Hunter on the Morrill Tariff, US Senate, Feb 12, 1861
...but I'm sure you've got a goofy non-response for that too. Let me guess what it will be: To bolster their "revisionist" tariff theory the democrat confederates used their super secret connections within the Knights of the Golden Circle, the freemasons, and the Vatican to sneak into the library of congress and insert anti-tariff speeches into the record that they could then cite as proof of their earlier objections against Mr. Morrill's bill.