Were they for appeasement to the point of allowing the port at Charleston to operate as a duty freeport? What would that have done to Northern commerce? What about the whole question of Federal tarrifs to protect private business?
To allow Charleston to operate as a duty free port while requiring tariffs be collected at all other ports would have been unconstituional. Had the southern secession been allowed then Charleston could have operated as a duty free port AND given out lollypops to the crews of the ships that called there and that would not have had any affect on the traffic in and out of the Northern ports at all.