Issues regarding the regional imbalance in tariffs stoked the embers of conflict dating back to Whig leader Henry Clay's tariff increase in 1824 and the "Tariff of Abominations" in 1828. The successor party to the Whig's, the Republican Party, pushed a huge increase (250% on some items) in the Tariff, (the Morrill Tariff), in early 1861. The shelling of the Revenue Post, Fort Sumter, in Charleston Harbor came when negotiations to end the standoff in the harbor failed.
Slavery was a sideshow by comparison, as stated by A. Lincoln to Horace Greeley in 1862.
Then why didn't the South rebel then? Why did it take the election of a president unalterably opposed to the expansion of slavery for tariffs to suddenly become a major issue?
The successor party to the Whig's, the Republican Party, pushed a huge increase (250% on some items) in the Tariff, (the Morrill Tariff), in early 1861.
Actually it was pushed early in 1860 where it passed in the House but failed in the Senate, yet the South didn't rebel then. And by the time it finally passed in March 1861 the Southern states had already announced their secession. So how can something that hadn't happened yet be the reason for their actions?
The shelling of the Revenue Post, Fort Sumter, in Charleston Harbor came when negotiations to end the standoff in the harbor failed.
Fort Sumter was an Army post. The revenue collection point was, if memory serves, on East Bay Street on the Charleston waterfront.
Slavery was a sideshow by comparison, as stated by A. Lincoln to Horace Greeley in 1862.
Quote please.