[Heyworth]

Then you have no other data to support any other contentions.

I have data from the same reports that you submitted, but found on different tables than the ones you directed readers to. Are you claiming that your source is reliable when it supports your arguments, but unreliable when it supports mine?

Additionally, there are the Statistical Abstract numbers, which collaborate the other data. Together they show that New Orleans, far from being some backwater which only saw coastal packet traffic (and 300 steam boat arrivals), was a thriving international seaport--the third busiest in the US by tonnage and to which almost a third of the ships arriving from abroad carried foreign flags. That's my contention, and its amply supported by sources which you originally cited.

[PeaRidge]

"I have data from the same reports that you submitted, but found on different tables than the ones you directed readers to. Are you claiming that your source is reliable when it supports your arguments, but unreliable when it supports mine?"

That is what you are trying to insinuate by misreading the data, then attributing the error to me. Sorry, won't work.

See the data table.

[PeaRidge]

"Additionally, there are the Statistical Abstract numbers, which collaborate the other data. Together they show that New Orleans, far from being some backwater which only saw coastal packet traffic (and 300 steam boat arrivals), was a thriving international seaport--the third busiest in the US by tonnage and to which almost a third of the ships arriving from abroad carried foreign flags. That's my contention, and its amply supported by sources which you originally cited."

That is fine. Glad you looked up the data. It is also good that you realize the importance of New Orleans and the Mississippi, which I have stated was a major threat to the continuing dominance of the New York coastal trade system. You can now understand the pressure Lincoln was under while making the decision to forcibly solve the secession event.

The strawman argument that you are attempting to create about New Orleans you can have. The quotes on shipping and the comments on the impact on Southern trade have been concerning the East coast trade system, primarily the ports of Norfolk through Savannah.

Those are the ports that largely shipped through New York and encountered the costs of shipping, storage, and the regulations of the warehousing laws.

[PeaRidge]

"Additionally, there are the Statistical Abstract numbers, which collaborate the other data. Together they show that New Orleans, far from being some backwater which only saw coastal packet traffic (and 300 steam boat arrivals), was a thriving international seaport--the third busiest in the US by tonnage and to which almost a third of the ships arriving from abroad carried foreign flags. That's my contention, and its amply supported by sources which you originally cited."

That is fine. Glad you looked up the data. It is also good that you realize the importance of New Orleans and the Mississippi, which I have stated was a major threat to the continuing dominance of the New York coastal trade system. You can now understand the pressure Lincoln was under while making the decision to forcibly solve the secession event.

The strawman argument that you are attempting to create about New Orleans you can have. The quotes on shipping and the comments on the impact on Southern trade have been concerning the East coast trade system, primarily the ports of Norfolk through Savannah.

Those are the ports that largely shipped through New York and encountered the costs of shipping, storage, and the regulations of the warehousing laws.