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I have always been skeptical of the tariff argument the, albeit sympathetic. I just feel that if the tariff was the problem, a Congress that was so good at "Great Compromises" would have found a way to avert war by lowering it. But...if Comgress had passed such a whopper, and Lincoln had just been elected, I could see a situation in which the zeitgeist in the South could be: "Heck with it, we're outahere. Enough is enough."