Civil War irony: Praying to same God for different results
Bill Federer recounts earnest petitions on both sides of conflict
Prior to the Civil War, tariffs on imports into southern ports, notably Charleston, South Carolina, provided the majority of the revenue for the U.S. federal government. A federal income tax did not exist yet.
Tariff taxes on foreign made goods made them more expensive, causing people to buy domestically produced goods mostly from Northern factories. Tariff taxes helped the North but hurt the South, as the South had few factories to protect. Economically and politically, the South was dependent on agricultural, primarily rice and cotton.
Cotton was one of the largest industries in the world, and America’s leading export. Before the Civil War, cotton exports from America’s southern states made up 77 percent of the 800 million pounds used in Britain’s textile industry.
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