The following article, copied from the Edgefield, S.C., Advertiser, appeared in the Lancaster [S.C.] Ledger, 13 Feb 1856, p. 2, c. 1:

HO! FOR KANSAS.

At the solicitation of many friends, I will proceed to organize a Company of one hundred men, to proceed to Kansas about the last of March.

This pioneer band need the aid of the moneyed citizens. They go to a far off country for the purpose of securing homes, and at the same time to defend Southern institutions. They appeal to their native State, with the hope thaty their appeal will not be in vain.

It is impossible that the people of South carolina can hear without emotion the news which daily comes to us from Kansas. The long and bitter animosites have at last ripened, and slavery and abolition, the North and the South, confront each other in the armed and deadly war. The issue has come, and to the people of the South, and of this State, to each and every slaveholder, the question addresses itself. What shall we do for Kansas? Shall we look listlessly, tamely on, while our friends[,] surrounded by the host of abolition are risking their fortunes[,] perhaps shedding their blood[,] in our behalf? Can we do nothing, give nothing of our abundance in such a cause?

We trust that these questions may be answered in a worth and liberal manner. Let patriotism and State pride, and Southern spirit, be expressed in some suitable, practical form of aid for Kansas.

E. B. BELL."

Note: The files of the Lancaster Ledger are incomplete for 1856. For the issues available, it does not appear that anyone from the District wrote back for publication, but the Ledger picked up articles from other South Caorlina papers which may not be found elsewhere, and also printed at least one article which appeared originally in the Atchison Squatter Sovereign. The quality of the preserved copies does not appear to be very good, and the microfilm is in places difficult to read.