Again, my math may be off, but wouldn't a united south with say a total of 22 senators been able to filibuster any bill they wanted to death?
But looking back on the events and writings of the day, the tariff did not seem to get any special notice. All the commotion through the 1860 political season, both North and South, was over the expansion of slavery. I have never come across any speeches or newspaper editorials either advocating or lamenting the tariff act. It seemed to be very much a side issue. The south did not secede over tariffs.
Potentially for a while, but not indefinately. If you've got the north in the Senate against you, the House against you, and the White House pressuring you non stop and making the thing its top issue, it's only a matter of time.
But looking back on the events and writings of the day
Sorry, but you would not know the events and writings of the day if they were a nuclear submarine lodged in your forehead, Walt.
the tariff did not seem to get any special notice.
The events of the day say otherwise. I have never come across any speeches or newspaper editorials either advocating or lamenting the tariff act.
Sure you have and in fact I've posted some excerpts of their writings for you. But coming across them and actually reading them are two different things and we all know that as a rule you simply do not read what you do not want to see.