The follwoing article appeared in the Abbeville [S.C.] Independent Press, 27 June 1856, p. 1, c. 4:

"To the People of the South.

You will preceive from a publication in the [Columbia, S.C.] "True Carolinian" of last week, and the [Anderson, S.C.] Gazette of this week, that I have been requested to visit the South to raise men and money by the Pro-Slavery Association of Leavenworth, and the association of Carolina emigrants. To stump the States of the South for this purpose would transcend my strength and means, and consume almost the entire year. It is necessary for me to return to Kansas as soon as possible, and if the people of the South intend to raise men and money to sustain the pro-slavery party in their present sanguinary contests with the abolitionists, and in their endeavors to make that Territory a Slave State, they should do it at once. Delay is dangerous, and if the pro-slavery party receive no material aid and no accessions to its ranks, it will be overpowered, and the Territory lost to the South. The States of Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Ohio, since I left the territory, have sent or are preparing to send, a strong reinforcement of men and large sums of money to sustain the abolition partyand the South must promptly follow their example, or see her emigrants butchered and driven from the field. Up to the 30th day of May, I was in all the leading struggles between the pro-slavery and abolition parties; I ahve seen blood flow, and lives lost -- men are arrayed against each other in armed bodies -- women, children and property have been sent out of the Territory, and civil war is raging. The conviction prevails among all parties West that this contest [has] just begun, and will not stop until the destiny of the Union, and of the institution of slavery, is determined. The recent battles and slaughters would seem to strengthen that opinion. I trust in God that such may not be the result, but from personal intercourse with and knowledge of the abolitionists, I candidly believe that their principles, interests and governing motives are so essentially different from those of the pro-slavery men, that they cannot live peaceably together, either in Kansas or in the Union, and hence a bloody dissolution of the Union is probable. Let that be as it may, the South should at once send on men and money sufficient to gaurd her rights, and sustain and porotect her emigrants.

We went to Kansas this spring to settle and go to work, but we were unexpectedly called upon to take up arms and aid the United States Marshal in compelling the abolitionists to submit to the law. This duty shoudl ahve fallen upon the Government; it fell upon the pro-slavery men, and we threw our lives and purses upon the side of law and order. As a consequence of this civil war, business was suspended, farms deserted, and our expenses swept away, our private means and that furnished us at home. The war still rages, and our emigrants and friends there must be supported and strengthened, or they will be complelled to quit the Territory.

All funds raised for the pro-slavery party can reach me through Col. John Cunningham, of Charleston; Col. James Gardner, of Augusta, Ga., Dr. Robert W. Gibbes, of Columbia, and Gen. J. W. Harrison and Colonels J. D. Ashmore and John T. Sloan, of Anderson C. H.

WARREN D. WILKES

Anderson C. H., June 10, 1856"

This article was copied from the [Columbia] True Carolinian. Correction of previous post; the Gen. Harrison was NOT Francis E. jharrison, but J. W. Harrison, as given above.