Huh, and my history book says Kentucky stayed in the Union.
In fact, the tariff elevated the rate on manufactured goods to about 50% of their value, resulting in significantly greater protection for New England cloth manufacturers
Manufacturing interests in the United States (particularly in the West and New England) did not yet carry the political clout in Congress that mercantile and shipping interests (who tended to oppose tariffs) did
I don't know what that tells you but pretty much sums up ; north---manufacturing---tariffs--protectionist ; South---shipping---no tariffs---free trade. Really that's about as basic as you can get. Don't see any other way to read that
So therefore KY was a Northern state? You are aware that four slave states stayed in the Union (MO, KY, MD, DE), I hope. Nobody at the time, that I've read, ever claimed that this made them northern states.
You are the one who wants to keep casting the entire issue of tariffs into hard and fast North vs. South categories. All I am trying to say is that for most of the period in question, these categories are misleading.
For instance, in your post #408, the link you posted had some interesting info. One of the highest tariffs included tariffs on hemp. As it turns out, the #1 product of both MO and KY (both slave states) was hemp, used to make rope. So these southern slave states were protected by the tariff from foreign competition.
I'm not saying many southerners were not upset by the protective tariffs. I'm sure many were. It's just that by 1860 this was just not that much of an issue, as can be seen by its relative lack of importance in their various Resolutions of Secession.
How exactly was the Confederacy planning to finance its new government, if it had been allowed to leave in peace? It is highly likely that any such government would have required high military expenses due to the potential for conflicts with the US. It is very likely that the total expenses for the Confederacy would have been at least as high as the $60,000,000 pf the US in 1859. There is little doubt this amount would have been financed by tariffs on imports, which are far and away the cheapest forms of taxes to collect. Thus the South would have had much higher taxes than when it was part of the Union.
To quote your tax.org link, "The antebellum south enjoyed one of the lightest tax burdens of all contemporary civilized societies."
Doesn't sound like excessive taxation drove them to secede.