Report of the special committee appointed to investigate the troubles in Kansas,: with the views of the minority of said committee.

KA NSAS AFAIRS.
SIr. Lowe, at the fort, which would accommodate from fifteen to
twenty-this was about two miles distant, and a carriage was run
back and forwards for the accommodation of their boarders. About
the sixth of July they adjourned from that place to Shawnee Mission.
The disagreement between the legislature and myself as to this removal,
and all subsequent proceedings, are already in the possession of the
committee. I was removed from office the last of July, and received
notice on the fifteenth of August. During my presence in the States
I went to the city of Washington, where I arrived in the beginning
of May, 1855. I at once saw President Pierce, and had a full consultation with him on the state of things in Kansas, which was protracted for more than two weeks, and kept up almost daily. I gave
himn, in the fullest manner, all the information which I had upon the
subject, and endeavored to impress upon him the conviction which
was upon my mind, that unless some decided course was taken the
actual settlers of the Territory would be subjected to most cruel persecution; that there was evidently a settled determination on the part
of the border counties of Missouri- strong in men and means-to deprive them of the right of governing themselves and regulating their
ow n affairs. I stated to him that the seizure of the polls at the two
elections which had been held, together with the intermeddling and
tyrannic spirit which pervaded the entire action of our Missouri neighbors, concurred with all the information I had received to convince
me that there ms a settled determination, by intimidation and force,
to subjugate the Territory entirely to their will, iil defiance of the
right of the majority and the principle of the organic law. I had
learned some new facts since the grant of the certificates of election,
which I also made known to him. Indeed, I stated to him all my
knowledge and all my views in the most candid manner, for I had
still the fullest confidence that he would share all my indignation at
the gross wrong of this foreign interference. I had several times
written him on this subject from the Territory. Immediately after
the election of the twenty-ninth of November, at which the most disgracefil scenes had been enacted, I wrote him fully what had taken
place, and expressed my views on the subject without reserve. Previous to that election I had also written him, and that such an invasionI was openly threatened, but expressed the opinion that, by carefil
provisions in my proclamation, I could counteract it, for I did not
then credit that it would be carried to such extremes of recklessness
and violence. A short time previous to the election of the thirtieth
of March I had again written him that the same thing was again
threatened. These letters, however, were private, and I now see that
I committed an error in making them so; but I then had confidence
that he felt upon the subject as I did, and that the cause of truth and
justice would be best subserved by intrusting the whole matter to
his discretion, without forestalling or hampering his future action.
The President, in our interviews, expressed himself highly pleased
and satisfied with my course, and in the most unequivocal language
approved and endorsed all I had done. He expiessed some regret,
however? that my speech in Easton had omitted all allusion to the
illegalities of the Emigrant Aid Society, and thought it was perhaps
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