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

1138
KANSAS AFFAiRS.
do not suppose I knew a majority; I may have known one-third of
those in the district, but I could not be certain. I was mostly
acquainted at Mount Pleasant, in the western part of the district.
Hayes's is on the Fort Laramie road, above Kickapoo. I think there
was a larger crowd then than at the election of the fall before. I
left early in the afternoon. There were some speeches made then.
I do not recollect that I heard much said about voting. They formed
lines ten or fifteen paces long, and went up to vote. I was among
the crowd considerably while I was there. I would not suppose that
more than two-thirds of the persons there were residents, from their
appearance and my knowledge of the district. I left early in the
afternoon.
Cross-examined by Mr. Grover:
I believe that James Ellison and Benjamin Yocum had homes in
Missouri at that time, and have yet. I did not see either of them
rote that day. I do not know a great many men in the neighborhood
of Kickapoo, though I have been there. I do not know that I know
the names of six men I know to live in Kickapoo. I know a gentleman of the name of Hayes, who lives in Kickapoo. I do not recollect
the names of any others, unless it is some of the Isaacs, who live
near there. Enoch Isaac is one of them. Those are all I can recollect of, that I know. I am not well acquainted in that portion of the
district, and know very few persons about and above Kickapoo. I do
not know that I know any men who live in Salt Creek valley. It is
tolerably thickly settled. No person was prohibited from voting on
the day of election at Hayes's. It was not that I was afraid, that I
did not vote; I was dissatisfied that Kellogg withdrew, and think I
should have voted for him if he had run. I had known him some
time, and knew him to be a good man. and thought we ought to have
had some one from the western part of the district to represent us.
Kellogg stated, when he withdrew, that he was a Cass man. I suppose he was a pro-slavery man.
F. M. POTTER.
LEAVENWORTH, K. T., May 20, 1856.
[See 0. H. Brewster, page 382.]
Aldavit.
RICHMOND, Mo., June 13, 1856.
As an act of justice to Major Oliver, the representative in Congress
from this district, we state that we were at Lexington at the proslavery convention, in July last-the same at which Samuel A. Young,
of Boone, and President Shannon, of the State University, made
speeches. We heard the reply of Major Oliver to the speech of Mr.
Young. The speech of Samuel A. Young was of a very rabid proslavery cast, and perfectly revolutionary in its charater; so much
so, that we were well satisfied that it met with but little sympathy
from the convention.