[GOPcapitalist]

The authors of that paper should also look to what Virginia's congressional delegation said in the House debate on the Morrill tariff. At one point in the debate some of the protectionists suggested that they would put a duty up against foreign tobacco in exchange for votes from the Virginia members.

A Virginia congressman stood up and informed them of his confidence in Virginia's ability to compete with tobacco from anywhere in the world, refused the tariff offer, and informed the northerners that his state had no interest in benefitting her producers at the expense of the nation or populace at large. Sure enough, the authors of that paper make virtually no mention of it in a paper that cannot be called anything other than a blatant overrepresentation of protectionist sympathies in the state.

[Ditto]

A Virginia congressman stood up and informed them of his confidence in Virginia's ability to compete with tobacco from anywhere in the world, refused the tariff offer, and informed the northerners that his state had no interest in benefitting her producers at the expense of the nation or populace at large.

Then why did the Confederate Congress levy a 25% tariff on imported cigars? There must have been some folks in Virginia who wanted the tariff set that high.