For folks who hated tariffs so much its really odd that they embraced them so closely.
TARIFF
OF THE
Confederate States of America
APPROVED BY CONGRESS,
MAY 21, 1861. TO BE OF FORCE
From and After August 31, 1861. Go here https://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/tariff/tariff.html to read them.
As I said before, on tariff collections, New York, not Charleston or New Orleans collected the overwhelming portion of tariffs. And it was impossible for less than 5 Million white southerners, most of the mud sill farmers, to spend more on imported goods that the 20 million people of the Northern states.
BTW, to answer you question… By the way, if that tariff burden were not falling overwhelmingly on the Southern states, why did the following politicians at the time say this…
The answer is simple. Then, just like today, politicians are generally sneaky, lying pieces of crap. That’s why.
For folks who hated tariffs so much its really odd that they embraced them so closely.Not really considering they were facing the then largest army on earth and desperately needed to raise money for their own defense.
As I said before, on tariff collections, New York, not Charleston or New Orleans collected the overwhelming portion of tariffs. And it was impossible for less than 5 Million white southerners, most of the mud sill farmers, to spend more on imported goods that the 20 million people of the Northern states.
And as I said, where the goods landed was irrelevant. The owner of the goods pays the tariff not the port. Also, who ever said only White Southerners bought the goods that were imported? I made it quite clear that that was not the case.
BTW, to answer you question… By the way, if that tariff burden were not falling overwhelmingly on the Southern states, why did the following politicians at the time say this… The answer is simple. Then, just like today, politicians are generally sneaky, lying pieces of crap. That’s why.
So all those politicians North and South, all those Newspapers North and South as well as foreign, they were all just lying? It was some grand conspiracy lasting decades in which numerous people on all sides decided to just lie about the fact that the Southern states were bearing the overwhelming share of the tax burden and were not receiving their fair share back in federal largesse?
I find that rather unpersuasive.