Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-07-08
From the Carolina Times.
SAVANNAH, Ga, Juue Is, l8!

SAVANNAH, GA, Juue Is, 1857.
Gentlemen: have just seen, copied from
your paper into the Barnwell Sentinel, letter
from a gentleman in Kansas, who after speak
ing of Col. Orr's visit, and matters, asks what
disposition will be made of the funds raised by
Baker and Treadwell.
The most satisfactory answer which / can
give to this inquiry, will be found in the enclos-
ed communication, under which | act and which
beg, therefore, you will do me the favor to pub
ish. The opening portion also, will successful
ly refute the assertion which occasionally reaches
US from some Northern quarters, that Atchison
and Stringfellow have given up the struggle for
slavery, and now contend only for Democracy.
Neither Col. Treadwell, nor myself have had
personally, anything to do with the disposition
of the funds which have been raised. With the
exception of portion of the amount subScrib-
ed in Columbia, retained to defray travelling ex-
penses, and to be hereafter accounted for, l
have thought it wisest for many reasons, not to
receive the funds at all, nor allow them to pass
through my hands; but have imposed upon the
chairmen of the various meetings, the duty of
making the collections and remtting them di-
rectly to Gen. Atchison, the President of the
Exc cutive Committee, in checks payable to the
Treasurer of the same, Mr.. Russell I prefer
red that the money should pass directly into
the hands of those men of exalted character
and well tried fidelity, to the. South especial
ly, entrusted by our party in the Territory
with the responsible duty Of executing their
plans, and providing for the general good of the
cause, and whose name is sufficient guarantee
to the whole country, OF the faithful application
to proper purposes of whatever money the gen.
erous South might place in their hands.
am gratifed at your proposal to do some.
thing in aid of Col. Clarkson especially. 1t IS
an act of Justice in which desire to participate,
and beg you will accept for that purpose the
enclosed small amount. have heard of his
generous and unselfsh devotion to our cause,
and of his kindness to our boys. We ought not
to let him suffer for it. As is well said in my
commission" We ought not only to feel but to
act as if feeling moral obligation to see that
such real friends suffer no ruin from their zeal
and generous confidence" There are many Of
our noble friends in the far North West who
have suffered similarly in their gallant efforts to
defend the South and sustain her suffering emil
grants trust the country will not forget them,
will not consent to leave them only mementoes
of ingratitude" / do hope and do believe,
that the wealthy and powerful South will so lib
orally respond to their appeal as to enable the
Executive Committee not only to provide for
the more pressing exigencies that first demand
attention, but to do something also towards
averting that ruin, and repairing in some meas
ure those disasters which many of our boldest
and most gallant partizans there have sustained
in their glorious and hitherto successful struggle
to defend our common rights.
Very truly, your ob't. serv't,
ALPHEUS BAKER, JR.
Editors Carolina Times, Columbia, S. G.