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

KANSAS AFFAIRS.
Carson, a particular friend of mine, staid all night with me, and told
me a good deal about it. He said they were at very considerable expense in fitting out. The ground they took was, that the extraorclinary efforts made by the Emigrant Aid Societies to abolitionize the
Territory, justified the part the Missourians took in that election.
[Mr. Grover objected to the declaration of Mr. Carson, as being
only hearsay evidence. The objection was overruled; Mr. Oliver
dissenting.]
I believe it was the all-absorbing topic here at that time that the'
cause of the excitement here was the extraordinary efforts of the
Emigrant Aid Society of Massachusetts to send emigrants here. I
do not think Mr. Cabbot was a citizen of the Territory at; that time;
if he was, I had no knowledge of it. He might have been a citizen of
the 9th council district and I not know it. I think that Lewis
Cahent was a citizen of Missouri at that time. He might have been
a citizen of the 9th council district and I not have known it; but I do
not believe it. Wilson J. Alexander, I believe, was living at Iatan,
Platte county, Missouri, at that time, as he had a store and was
selling goods there.
Qtestion. Do you know that Alexander was living in Iatan on the
day of the election of the 30th of March, 1855?
Answer. He was a citizen of Iatan at that time.
Mr. Green was like the others, he lived in Platte county before the
election. I believe hlie was a resident there at that time. According
to my last information, he was a citizen at that time of Platte county;
and so it was with all the rest of the names I have given as from
Platte county. I do not know of any free-State candidates in the
field on that day. I know nothing about the majority of the proslavery party in that district. I went home from the polls to dinner;
went back again, and remained there till about sundown. I saw no
one prevented from voting, for there was only one side.
To Mr. Moore:
From this information I got from the parties themselves, and from
what I knew of them before, I believed the persons I have mentioned
to be from Clay, Ray, Clinton, and Platte counties, Missouri. They
were my old acquaintances, and I would ask them how the folks were
in Clinton county, and so with regard to the others. I do not know
that I saw any persons at that election sent out by the Emigrant Aid
Society; if they were, I did not know them.
D. HOLLADAY.
LEAVENWORTH CITY, K. T., f[ay 20, 1856.
FRANCIS M. POTTER testifies:
I was at the election of the 30th of March, 1855, at Hayes's, but
did not vote there. I was from Missouri; James Ellison, from Buchanan county; Benjamin Werner, who lives near the line between
Buchanan and Platte counties, and Major Oliver, of Ray county,
I was just tolerably well acquainted in the district at that time.
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