Right here:
"You suppose that numbers constitute the strength of government in this day. I tell you that it is not blood; it is the military chest; it is the almighty dollar. When you have lost your market; when your operatives are turned out; when your capitalists are broken, will you go to direct taxation?"
Are you really that dense?
BTW, can you point out a single point in his tirade where Wigfall was right in predictions?
Gladly. "will you go to direct taxation?" The Lincoln did exactly that.
My aren't we getting testy all of a sudden.
That quote is Wigfall's prediction of what will happen to the United States once the south was gone. Know how you can tell? It follows the paragraph where he mentions the 40% tariff that the south could establish. These were predictions, by the way, which were amazing in their inaccuracy. Instead of a crumbling North it was the south that was broken, the south which was bankrupted, the south which turned to protectionist tariffs and confiscatory income tax rates of their own. So again I ask. Where does Wigfall claim that the south was seceding over the tariff? It's a simple question, one which even you should be able to answer.
Exactly what market did Wigfall expect the North to lose that was going to break them? Certanly not the south. That the few hundred thousand people in the south who could afford anything manufactured in the north were a blip compaired to the millions of customers in the north. Perhaps he thought cutting off the Mississippi would strangle the midwest. If so, he was wrong. Goods moved east on railroads, the Ohio river and across the Great Lakes until Grant opened the Mississippi in July 63. It was the south that cut itself off first with an insane embargo of cotton and second by never investing in a navy or industry.
As far as direct taxation, the CSA did it too, and to every lowely farmer, not just "high-wage" individuals like the north. The Union income tax did not kick in until income was over $800/year --- a lot of money in the 1860s.
Wigfalls predictions were about as reliable as the National Enquirer's. Both sides agreed the guy was a nut case.