[DoodleDawg]

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.

If the U.S. was so completely dependent on the South for tariff revenue then one would think that with the beginning of the war the federal revenue stream would dry up to nothing, wouldn't you? No money coming in? No way to pay for anything? Yet in his State of the Union message to Congress in 1864 Lincoln reported tariff revenues of over $102 million. The year before it had been $70 million. So where did it come from?

[smoothsailing]

If the U.S. was so completely dependent on the South for tariff revenue then one would think that with the beginning of the war the federal revenue stream would dry up to nothing, wouldn't you?

Of course not. Are you saying all ports were southern ports? Did anyone tell New York?

[kiryandil]

Yet in his State of the Union message to Congress in 1864 Lincoln reported tariff revenues of over $102 million. The year before it had been $70 million. So where did it come from?

This is another excellent example of omission and obfuscation.

DOODLE! could actually dig up what the number means, but her phrasing of the statement serves her agenda, so now you, smooth, have to do the work to dispel the fog.

We saw this tactic with the WH Clintonites first, and now the WH Sunni-ites, all day long.

There is no interest in the actual facts, just the agenda.