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

KANSAS AFFAIRS.
law-office of John Hlutchison, as I afterwards found out. Governor
Reeder did not go into the room where I was initiated. Doctor
Robinson was standing just before the door, with a lady, I think.
Colonel Lane asked him to leave the lady and go into the office with
us. Robinson rather objected at first, but finally came in with us
and said he would explain the nature of the organization he was
about to initiate me into. The substance of the explanation was
that Kansas was a beautiful country and well adapted to freedom,
and the best territory in the world for the friends of freedom to
operate on, more especially for those who were engaged in the freewhite State cause. After proceeding in that strain for awhile, he
asked me if I was willing to pledge my word and honor that I would
keep secret what I saw there and who I saw there, provided he would
pledge his word and honor that there was nothing that would interfere with my duties as a citizen, or that was disloyal in any respect.
I replied that I was willing. He then gave me some other instructions that I do not now recollect, of about the same import as the
first. Colonel Lane then took me in hand and told me that he could
administer the grand obligation, which was done by my repeating after
him, as follows:
'I, of my own free will and accord, in the presence of Almighty
God and these witnesses, do solemnly swear that I will always hail,
forever conceal, and never reveal any of the secrets of this organization to any person in the known world, except it be to a member of
the order, or within the body of a just and legal council. I furthermore promise and swear, that I will not write, print, stain, or indite
them on anything movable or immovable, whereby the least figure or
character may become intelligible to myself or any other person. I
furthermore promise and swear, that I will at all times, and under all
circumstances, hold myself in readiness to obey, even to death, the
orders of my superior officers. I furthermore promise and swear, that
I will at all times, and under all circumstances, use my influence to
make Kansas a free-white State. I furthermore promise arnd swear,
that all things else being equal, I will employ a free-State man in
preference to a Missouri man, or a pro-slavery man. I furthermore
promise and swear, that all business that I may transact, so far as in
my power, shall be transacted with free-State men. I furthermore
promise and swear, that I will at all times, and under all circumstances, hold myself in readiness to take up arms in defence of freeState principles, even though it should subvert the government. I
furthermore promise and swear, that I will at all times, and under all
circumstances, wear upon my person the regalia of my office and the
insignia of the order. I furthermore swear, that I will at all times,
and uinder all circumstances, wear on my person a weapon of death.
I furthermore promise and swear, that I will at all times, and under
all circumstances, keep in my house at least one gun, with a full
supply of ammunition. I furthermore promise and swear, that I will
at all times, and under all circumstances, when I see tlre sign of distress given, rush to the assistance of the person giving it, even when
there is a greater probability of saving his life than of losing my
own. I furthermore promise and swear, that I will, to the utmost of
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