Your statement, if true, has nothing to do with my comment at any rate. Given the decline in trade to the South as the War was ramping up I would expect a decline in traffic.
Your contention that the North did not have a significant export trade also supports my statement that the tariffs had the same negative impact on the farmers of North and South.
I think you need to have your eyes examined. I said H's Report was NOT accepted. Since bounties were the main reason he wrote it their rejection meant it was rejected as well.
And I said you are simply wrong about that. The bounties were rejected but the tariffs were not. Nor were the tariffs an inconsequential matter - they take up more pages in the report than any other item.