[Non-Sequitur]

With nothing to export to finance imports for tariff revenue generation, the Lincoln government was in a bad fix.

And yet with all those exports the economy of the south was the disaster area, not the North. And following the war, with the southern egricultural industry in tatters, the Northern economy didn't collapse...or even stagger. Intersting.

[PeaRidge]

I am not sure what the word "intersting" means unless it means mixing pre-war economies with post-war economies and making simple self serving statements out of unsupportable conclusions. However, you seem to think that the South was a disaster area before the war.

It wasn't. In fact, it was so strong it was a threat to the north.

That is why Lincoln was motivated to start the war.