[WhowasGustavusFox]

"There were never any tariffs on Southern-produced goods. Tariffs are on imports, not exports."

You miss the point. In 1860, 65% of the value of US exports was in cotton and tobacco. Whether or not Southern states exported and imported, paying tariffs, or Northern traders and brokers bought, shipped and re-imported, thus paying tariffs, is not the issue. The point is that in 1860, 65% of the US Treasury revenue came from tariffs on imported goods paid for in Europe with Southern grown goods. With cotton and tobacco no longer going through US Customs houses, the government was almost immediately bankrupt.

[Restorer]

You miss my point. What you are referring to is a balance of payments issue, not a revenue issue. Unless the consumers of imported goods in the northern, mid-south and border states had suddenly stopped consuming. Or you have some evidence that indicates a vastly disproportionate amount of tariffed goods were consumed in the Deep South.

[shuckmaster]

I was taught in school that the major bone of contention leading to the war was that ships from France & England were off-loading furniture & goods at ports in the South and then on-loading cotton & other agriculturals with IOU's instead of cash being exchanged.
The Southerners were thus avoiding taxes, tariffs, sending raw materials east instead of north (thus driving up the price yankees had to bid), and at the same time, diminishing the market for northern industrial goods in the South. Northern industrialists resented that & contrived to destroy the South using any & every dirty trick available right up to a fraticidal war.
Keep in mind that lincoln didn't found his party, he was selected by the party to do the dirty work for northeastern yankees who were determined to destroy the South's economy.

It's almost comical to see the lincoln apologists scream & holler at the notion that economy was the cause of the war. There was no other reason!

[Ditto]

The point is that in 1860, 65% of the US Treasury revenue came from tariffs on imported goods paid for in Europe with Southern grown goods.

So the south went to war to protect European manufactures?

[Ditto]

With cotton and tobacco no longer going through US Customs houses, the government was almost immediately bankrupt.

When did Cotton or Tobacco ever go through US Customs houses?

Do you have any idea how stupid your statements are?