Typical Lost Causer selective quoting. How about the rest of that paragraph, where he says:
We are concerned here only with the change in the tariff; yet it must be borne in mind that (p. 161) these changes were only a part of the great financial measures which the war called out. Indeed, it is impossible to understand the meaning of the changes which were made in the tariff without a knowledge of the other legislation that accompanied it, and more especially of the extended system of internal taxation which was adopted at the same time. To go through the various acts for levying internal taxes and imposing duties on imports is not necessary in order to make clear the character and bearing of the legislation of the war. It will be enough to describe those that are typical and important. The great acts of 1862 and 1864 are typical of the whole course of the war measures; and the latter is of particular importance, because it became the foundation of the existing tariff system.So, according to Taussig, the further increases in the tariff before 1865 were not some protectionist scheme, not some nefarious plan for building northern internal improvement on the backs of the south, but a measure to pay for an expensive war. And just how is it that increases to the tariff made during the war were somehow going to make the south pay? The south wasn't paying anything at the time.It was not until 1862 that the country began to appreciate how great must be the efforts necessary to suppress the Rebellion, and that Congress set to work in earnest to provide the means for that purpose.
And the decades after the war didn't see any drastic increase in tariffs. According to Taussig, what they saw instead was a slow decrease. Not fast enough to please Taussig, of course, but a decrease nonetheless. in 1876, for example, the tariff was reduced by 10% on average, and by as much as half on certain items (like salt). Other items were exempted from the tariff altogether.
Hardly selective quoting and what you post from him just adds injury to insult (i.e. the South will pay for the war). Lincoln ran on the Morrill Tariff and the sent said if would secede if he got elected and it did. Additionally, my previous post more than drove the point home that the GOP was OVERWHELMINGLY the tax and spend party all the way up and into the 20th century. For God's sake, they lost Congress to the Democrats because of their stance on huge tariffs.
Just because they raised them througout the Civil War (to pay for their war no less) doesn't detract from the fact that they ran on raising them BEFORE the war and continued to so LONG AFTER THE WAR.
These clowns never learn. They post cherry-picked quotes then one who is concerned about the Truth post the FULL selection which INVARIABLY shows the opposite of what they are trying to show. Almost every CW thread has several examples of this.