[Non-Sequitur]

As far as your reference to "increased shipping costs", how is it more expensive to ship from New Orleans and Savannah to Ohio or New York, than it is to ship from New York to Ohio or New Orleans?

Simple. An import received at New York and sent to Ohio pays one tariff, the one imposed by the United States. An import received at Savannah pays the confederate tariff and then the Northern tariff. That's why it would be more expensive.

Had the South stayed on for another 30 years, slavery would have dissipated and something else would have had become said lightning rod.

Like what?

All States entered into the Constitutional compact with the knowledge that the States could withdraw upon breach or otherwise by the other States.

I'm not sure what you base this on but what breach of the Constitution was there?

Thanks to Abraham Clinton that option does not exist.

Sure, Jefferson Davis and his ilk had nothing to do with it, is that right?