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

KANSAS AFFATRS.
they wanted, they asked Mr. Davis for all the money he had in the
store. There were but four dollars in the drawer, which Mr. Davis
handed to them, and then they went off. Mr. Joab M. Bernard is a
pro-slavery man. When they first came, they looked up at the sign,
and said they would like to shoot at the name.
JOHN MILLER
STATE OF MISSOURI,
Jackson county, ss:
On the 9th day of June, A. D. 1856, personally appeared before
me, the subscriber, a justice of the peace in and for the county and
State aforesaid, John Miller, whose name appears to the above and
foregoing statement, and makes oath that the above and foregoing
statement is true, as therein set forth.
Given under my hand and seal, this ninth day of June, A. D. 1856.
THOMAS J. GOFORTH, [L. s,]
Justice of the Peace,
STATE OF MISSOURI,
County of Jackson,
I, John R. Swearingen, clerk of the county court within and for
the county aforesaid, do hereby certify that Thomas J. Goforth, eq,;#'
whose genuine signature appears to the above affidavit, now is, and
was at the time of so doing, an acting justice of the peace within and
for the county aforesaid, duly elected, commissioned, and qualified;
and that full faith and credit is due to all his official acts as such, as
well in courts of justice as thereout.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
L s the seal of said court, at office, in the city of Independence,
this 14th day of June, A. D. 1856.
JOHN R. SWEARINGEN, Clerk.
Affidavi't of Joab M. Bernard
The undersigned, Joab MI. Bernard, states, on oath, that I am a
resident of the Territory of Kansas, and that I have kept a store at
Saint Bernard, in the Territory of Kansas, for about two years last
past. My store-house is situated at a place called Saint Bernard,
about thirty miles south of Lecompton, and about fifty-two files from
Westport, on the road leading from Fort Scott to California, commonly called the "Fort Scott and California road." I left my store
about the 26th day of May last. I had a sum of money on handabout $2,000. There was a good deal of excitement in the country onu
account of the political difficulties. Some of my neighbors, free-State
men, informed me that my life was in danger, and that I had better
keep a sharp look-out or else I might be killed; that they (my neighbors) heard some other men of the free-State party say that they would
kill me. In consequence of these things, combined, I left, as I thought
I would be robbed and then murdered. Accordingly I left. When
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