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

KANSAS AFFAIRS.
p r names on a piece of blank paper, and Captain Martin said we
etter start and make the best of our way home. This was about
clock in the afternoon, I think. We then left and made the
f our way home. WVe had got some two mniles vwhen we saw
o ix or eight horsemen full chase after us. We went off to the
f the road and stopped until they p)assed, and we heard them
they caulght us agaiin wAe shlould not get away so easy. I got
here, to Leavenwortli, between eleven and(l twvelve o'clock that
ss-examined by MAr. OliverI:
ein we sig(ned that I)aper somie of tlemn, Mlr. John )iDunn among
said lie knew the imost of us; that we were generally inclined
,( our lbuisiness and stay at lioie, and lie tl-ioug,it Brown was
ader of this, andc otiher talkl to that effkct, and then Captain
1 askled us to sign t'at blank )iecce of palper, as I believe, for
t r)ose of using it to save us. I thinik he did all lie could to that
andl acted, so 4tr as I could ece, like a genitlemian. Mlany others
ed well; bt otlers hlad got (Idrinirl at the grocly. I was p)retty
1 that Gibson and a man ca(lled( isaaces we ic not (rllnkl, aldl they
wer )rse tlhan any who welre irunlk, thogli, tlere were many of
tlhein.
JOSEPH H14. 1IIRD.
LE:WrA'iNWOPTII CITY, K. T., iJay 16, 185)(.
HENLIY J. A I)ANLS call( anid swoirn.
[ reside in Lecavenwoirtlt city. I first came liere about the first of
July last. I am a native of iNewv Yoik, but camie r-:iom Wasl-hington
city hIere, and have been en,a,,ed in )iublic sur,rveys.
I was at thle election of -Easton the 17tli of Janiutary, 185. It wals
an eleetion for State offieers under the Stlate c niis,titution of Kansas.
It is in this (district and tlhe twelfth election (listrict under the State
app)ortionment. I went firoom this city to that election, acconllanicdie
1)y R. P. Brown, J. C. Greene, Calvin iLucas, and a 1nan by the name
of' obiniuson and one by the name of'yrd whlose first names I do
not remen-iber, George Traylor, ancd a tFreniiclh ana einl)loye(d by Mr.
Brown to drive his team. Th(re were ei,l-it of' us in the wag,on.
After the election was over. a 1),lty of meni came u) fioin Mr. Dawson's store, about a quarter of a mile east of Mr. Miinard('s, whlere the
electiun was held, I tlinrk, twenty-five or thlirty iii number, for the
purpose of taking the ballot-bo)x or poll-list. Ls we uinderstood. Some
of our p)arty wAere out with thleir guns, drawn up in line near thle door
to resist any such attempt. Considerable altercation took pilace back
and forth, but I do not recollect exactly what was said. Some of our
party were considerably excited and I thought were g(o)ing rather too
far, and Mr. Minard and I were apprehensive they might fire lipon
this party coming up, and we urged them not to do so, to commit no
act of ) hostility except in self detence. After sonc parleying, and, I
thought, urging by the leader of the party coming up, to get his men
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