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

KANSAS AFFAIRS.
Westport, very quietly came into the tent and requested General
Pomeroy to get ready as quietly as possible and follow them, as they
were a-fraid of his life from the soldiers, who they were afraid would
collect there and hang him. He did not know them, and declined to
go. General Strickler then came in, and they told him who they
were, and wanted to take him over to the house of Blue Jacket's
across the creek, where the headquarters were. He then went with
themi there, and I saw no more of him. I passed the guard once with
the word "Stringfellow." I was standing in front of the tent after
dark and was taken for one of the guard, and one of them asked me
for the password. I pretended I had forgotten it, but I heard him
give it to some one else. I shiould have left that night, but General
Strickler had promised me that I should be at liberty in the morning,
and I wanted to leave with full honors.
The next day, in the afternoon, one of the guards told us that they
were afraid to release us then for fear the crowd would mob us, as
Gen. Strickler could not control them. They sent the cannon out on
the prairie to practice,and most of the crowd went out to see them.
The cannon they had were United States field-pieces, and I think
were ten or twelve-pounders. I do not know where they came from;
but I saw them afterwards going to Missouri. I knew a great many
of the men then in the companies, some from Platte and Jackson
counties, and from the city of Liberty, Missouri. I should judge that
but few of those persons there were citizens of the Territory; but all
spoke as if they came from Missouri. I do not know sheriff Jones or
Coleman. After the cannon were sent out, they marched us over to
Blue Jacket's and gave me a written discharge, signed by Brigadier
General Strickler, as commander of the Wakarusa forces, for the
guards to allow me to pass unmolested. They kept about seventy-five
dollars' worth of things they took from me, consisting of two pairs of
blankets, saddle, bridle, and martingale, and revolver. I gave them
over to Gen. Strickler to keep. 1 asked him in Lawrence for them,
and hlie said he knew nothing about them, but supposed they had been
returned to me. I never saw them afterwards, or heard what became
of them. The horse I rode belonged to the pro-slavery man Chick,
who came down from Topeka. I afterwards went down to Missouri,
and saw some of these companies there stringing along as though they
were returning from some frolic. I saw the cannon going down at
that time. After they let me go, on Saturday afternoon, I went back
to the camp again, and went round awhile. There were some persons
there from Kansas City who appeared to be drunk, and who got a
rope and followed me about and threatened to hang me. I saw these
forces stop the mail and detain the mail-driver for an hour or two
while I was prisoner. I did not see what was done with the mail.
The wagon was driven on past the tent out of sight. The driver got
out and stood by the tent.
LAWRENCE. K. T., M[ay 9, 1856.
ASAPH ALLEN.
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