Since the opposing parties didn't gainsay him, it appears to be so.
As for the outbreak of the Civil War - you must remember that the majority funding of the federal government was these tariffs, and the federal government did not foresee that other methods of funding Leviathan would arise as a result of that war.
Even today, we know how dangerous it is to get between the government and its money tit.
Tariffs, THE funding source for the federal government, were in danger. No wonder the government reacted like a rabid hyena.
Thanks kiry. It would seem that the Union was far more fearful of losing tariff revenues than the southern states were of having to continue to pay them. To the south, it was one of a number of abuses. To Lincoln and the Union, it was everything. The first GIBSMEDATS!
