As Texas Senator Wigfall said in February, 1861:
How will it be with New England? Where will their revenue come from? From your custom-houses? What do you export? You have been telling us here for the last quarter of a century, that you cannot manufacture even for the home market under the tariffs which we have given you. When this tariff ceases to operate in your favor, and you have to pay for coming into our market, what will you expect to export?
Then there was Thomas Prentice Kettell who argued in 1860 that the summer crop of Massachusetts was granite and the winter crop was ice. Sounds facetious, but Massachusetts did export ice to the South in ships.
From the Memphis Daily Appeal of April 9, 1861:
The Vessel fired into at Charleston
From the Savannah Republican, April 5
Since copying the article from the Charleston Courier, the vessel fired into from the forts at Morris Island has arrived in our port, and we are enabled to give full particulars of the affair.
The schooner is the H. R. Shannon, Capt. Ments, of Boston, and she was bound for this city with a cargo of ice, consigned to A. Haywood. ...
Darned if Kettle wasn't right.
Even Gustavus Fox encountered an ice schooner on his Fort Sumter mission:
However, the Powhatan and tugs not coming, Captain Rowan seized an ice schooner and offered her to me, which I accepted ...
Those poor ice schooner captains. One of them blunders into the wrong port by mistake, runs up the wrong flag, and gets shot at by the South. A few days later another one has his ship pirated away from him by the North.
The schooner was actually the Rhoda H. Shannon. A Google search will show that. And while it really makes no difference, after getting hauled over the coals on O.A. Tyler vs A.O. Tyler I just couldn't resist.