The following is another letter re the crisis in Kansas published in the Abbeville [S.C.] Banner, this one being copied from the Anderson [S.C.] Gazette and Advocate [a newspaper for which no copies are known to exist], printed in the Abbeville Banner10 Jul 1856, p. 2, c. 7:

"TO THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

Up to this time, since my return from Kansas, I ahve labored zealously, publicly and privately to secure aid for the South Carolina Emigrants to that territory. So far, I have succeeded well in arousing a proper feeling upon the subject, whereby I have been privileged to address my former fellow-citizens, and I may reasonably calculate upon receiving a fair contribution of men and money. But the active duties of camp-life, and the fatigue of traveling and speaking for the last ten weeks, has well-nigh exhausted me. It will be impossible for me, therefore, to make the tour of the State during the brief time allotted for my visit, and I sincerely hope that the people of each District will contribute for the relief of their Carolina friends in Kansas, as freely and fully as though addressed in public assembly. All the moneys contributed for their benefit, can reach me by being deposited in any of the Columbia Banks, to my order. A word more in their behalf. South Carolina has sent to Kansas between two and three hundred young men of character and spirit, with money enough to support them until they could get into business -- in May, the U. S. Marshal summoned the law and order men of the Territory, to aid him in arresting certain persons in the town of Lawrence, who were indicted for High Treason, and in compelling the Abolitionists to obey the law, our Carolina boys, almost to a man, grasped their arms and repsonded to the call; they not only marched one hundred and sixty miles upon foot, but upon the open prairies without tents, and endured the perils of war, but generally expended their mony in purchasing ammunition, provisions, and teams necessary for the expedition.

They were under no compulsion to do so -- they might have refused to obey the summons, retained their money, and gone upon a claim. If they ahd done so, the Abolitionists would have overrun the territory. But no, the authority of the United States had to be maintained, and Southern rights and institutions defended, and they spent their money and periled their lives in maintaining the one and defending the other. The same is true of Southern Emigrants generally. Now they ask for money to support them, until quiet is restored and they can get to work. Is their appeal in vain? Will not every man and patriotic woman in this and other Southern States give the samll sum of fifty cents for their relief? If so, it will be enough. If they knew what our Emigrants have suffered and are still suffering in defence of their rights and property, they would do so promptly. Let not this appeal be in vain, lest the Emigrants be forced to leave the Territory for the want of timely aid and the cause of the South abandoned.

Respectfully,

WARREN D. WI[L]KES
Anderson C. H., July 1, 1856"

Warren D. Wilkes, the former law partner of U. S. Representative James L. Orr (Orr served one term as Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives in the 1850's), had gone out in early April with the Abbeville company to Kansas, but obviously had soon returned to S.C., for the purpose of raising funds.