While that may be true to a degree, Tariffs had become a major political issue and the government was still tiny in comparison to today.
What is interesting is that at the time, Republicans were for higher tariffs and democrats believed that higher tariffs hurt the consumer and commerce. This was largely a argument made by the South.
Today, there is no way that we could fund the government as it is constructed on tariffs alone and going back to that would be a fools belief.
But there are indeed a lot of fools.
I am not suggesting we fund the govt on tariffs - only the notion that being for tariffs is somehow not a conservative principal.