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Whoops! If I typed in two or three thousand South Carolinians who went to Kansas, it was grossly in error. Warren D. Wilkes, in his article, stated that the number was two to three hundred. Sorry for any error, which was entirely mine. That was still a significant number in a State which had a total population of only about 700,000, over half of whom were slaves per the 1860 Census. Wilkes appaears to be an accurate reporter,as far as I can tell.

I ran into the 1856 series of articles quite by accident, looking for veteran reminiscences in Soiuth Carokina newspapers in the early 1900'a, and ran across an article in a Greenville newspaper which referenced the Laurens Company. It kinda snow-balled from there. Fortunately, a surprising number of issues of 1856 newspapers exist, and are available on microfilm.

As John Russell correctly points out, of course the newspapers were biased, but I suspect that the pro-slavery viewpoint has gotten short shift in many historical accounts. The horrors of civil war in pre-1861 Kansas led directly to the even greater horrors of bloodshed in Missouri during the war years.

I still ahve a stack of 15-20 articles left to paost, and have yet to look at the Yorkville Inquirer for this period. It is the one of the last county weeklies from South Carolina that I have not sampled.

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