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

KANSAS AFFAIRS.
a little before, sundown. I think they had liquor to sell at Dawson's
store. I do not know whether the men with Brown came down with
him, but they went away with him. Brown said he and his company
had sixty-eight shots ready. I supposed his company were up to Mr.
MIinard's. I do not know who came with Brown to the election. He
said he had sixteen shot himself, and he showed them. Nobody spoke a
word to him, but he did all the talking. I do not think Brown was
drunk then.
To Mr. Scott:
These twelve or fifteen men at the store where Brown made these
threats, I do not know whether they were all pro-slavery men or not;
I think they were mostly, though one or two that I knew were not.
I do not know whether any of those twelve or fifteen men, except myself, had been up to the place of voting or not; I do not recollect of
having seen any of them up there. No difficulty had occurred at the
place of voting before I left for home, and I do not think any proslavery men were there when I left. When I left the place of voting
the free-State party were putting out armed guards. I had stopped
there a time, after Brown made his threats, while I was on my way
home.
LEAVENWORTH CITY, K. T., SIay 29, 1856.
S. J. KOOKOGEY called and sworn:
JOHN WILFLEY.
To Mr. Scott:
I was clerking for Dawson, at Easton, at the time the free-State party
had an election at Minard's, the 17th of January, 1856. The election
was said to have been appointed for the 15th, and was postponed
till the -17th, but I do not know for what reason. I saw a number
of men there that day that I never saw before or since. All the
men who came there to vote were armed. I do not know of any
pro-slavery men who came to that election; and at night, when I
went up to MAinard's with his wife, who was down town, I saw some
seventy or eighty men in the room there; it was about ten o'clock at
night. I was quite well acquainted with nearly all the persons in
that neighborhood, as they traded where I was clerking. I saw but
three men in the room that I recognised; the rest appeared to be
strangers to me. I recognised James Comstock, a Mr. Davis, and old
3Ir. Sparks. There might have been others I knew, but I did not
notice them. I was not challenged by sentinels when I went up to
the house, though I saw some about a hundred yards from the house.
After I came back to the store, I went up again to see Mr. Minard, as
I had just received notice from General Whitfield that Dawson had
been appointed postmaster at Easton. 3Mr. McLear went up with me,
and went into the house, while I stopped outside and talked with Mr.
MIinard, who had just come out, about the post office. We walked
back to the door, and old man Sparks rushed out very much excited,
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