[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Last I checked, Bubba, NYC wasnt (and still isn't) in the south, so what's your point there?

That the whole issue of the alleged importance of tariff collections at southern points is wildly overblown by lost causers who want to deflect the notion that southern secession was over the issue of slavery. Clear enough?

Was this post supposed to tell any of use here anything? You've effectively skipped over referenced, factual responses to every one of your lies here, but you pop your head up again to say "AHA! Charleston was #2, not #1 - gotcha!"???

I apologize if I've somehow given you the impression that I'm obliged to answer each and every one of your posts. Mea culpa. But just to be clear, by the "Mother of all" tariff collection points in the south, you really mean "a distant number two." Is that about right?

the effort at humility would be nice.

Pretty rich, coming from you.

[Who is John Galt?]

...the whole issue of the alleged importance of tariff collections at southern points is wildly overblown by lost causers who want to deflect the notion that southern secession was over the issue of slavery. Clear enough?

Actually, the whole issue of the alleged importance of slavery is wildly overblown by union enthusiasts, who choose to ignore the simple fact that it is the constitutionality of State secession that was the critical issue (both in the 1830s and the 1860s). If secession was constitutional, then it mattered not at all whether the Southern States seceded over concern for the institution of slavery, or simply because Northerners suffered from halitosis, as well as hypocrisy.

"Clear enough?"

;>)