"The total amount of imports at the port of New York for the week ending on the 18th, was $2,328,479; for the same week in 1860, $5,517,58 . This was a decrease of 57%.
"Since 1st January, $66,424,138; for the same period last year, $91,215,143. The decline was 30% at that point."
I’m going to take the chance on replying, even though it apparently causes me to be confused with someone else, because I’m really interested in answers to what seems to be a disconnect between what you are saying and what the records show. In December 1864 wasn’t Lincoln reporting tariff revenue of over $100 million for the fiscal year that ended in June or July? And isn’t that amount greater than it was prior to the war? And wasn’t all that tariff revenue generated without Southern consumers?