Yes, and that issue combined with the issue of slavery nearly destroyed the United States.
So you say.
I am suspicous of your motives because you applied the debate technique of introducing a Red Herring - that of slavery. Since slavery is allegedly a bad thing, tossing that in along with "tariffs" is supposed to also taint something totally irrelevant to slavery.
That's dishonest particularly when the burden of proof is on you to show that tariffs, compared to say, an income tax or property tax is a bad thing.
Bermuda gets along quite well on high tariffs.