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

KANSAS AFFAIRS.
more upon sight now. I knew Mlr. Snowdy and Mr. Robinson, from
Jackson county, I think, and Mr. McGee, from Jackson county.
These are all that come to my memory now, with the exception of
Colonel Young, whomn I knew by sight. I had conversation with
some of these (,entlemen. They said they came here for the purpose
of voting. They said it was for the purpose of electing, a legislature
to suit themselves. I think the,- did say that they had understood,
and believed, that there were a number of persons not elnltitled to vote
wvlio would vote to establish principles different from those they desired to have established inl this Territory.
I don't thlink anything was said in cam[) that ni,ght about legal or
illegal voting. They said there were a great number of' persons here
troin the east anl north who wished to elect a legislature here they did
not desire. They said they would elet a legislature to suit tleriselves,
beeause the )eop)le of the Territory would not elect a legislature to
suit them. I don't state this as a;act, but as near as I cain recollect.
I think they said they had as good a right to vote as men who came
fron othier States. I heard them say there were men heire from the
(,ast an(l nortlih whlo came here to vote. They said( that these men had
.come lere he )r no other i)urlpose, and tl-ha' they had as ituchl right to
comle here and vote as ti(e others 1had; and that was tae reason they
gav-e for coming here.
Tliey were ariiied. Thlere was no violence ofifered,,uL,- crowding
aund pushing. There was a larger crowd there than I had,seeni in the
Terr;itoiy be,ore. I don't think I ever. saw quite so mutcld crowding
an(d pusIhiing at any other election in other places. I di1d not see any
violence used( or w-ea)pons ( drawn.
Mrl. SI,;)cr'l,,. Lcok att this poll-1ook and state the nu:.~ber of your
voite.
I it~es(s. It was 881. I do not live in town; I live in the country.
I aIni a faimer, and'raie stock. M,3y meancs of knowving the people
hre was that the couIitry' was thinly settled. I had(l considerable
stc,k, a,d wa ricding through tlhec Territory a great deal, mieeting
pers,ons liere and thleIe.
WMI. YA TES.
lAi~CL. I. T., 2q9,it 25, 1856.
Wm13.. HORNSBY )rodtucd atnd sworn.
T., ~.t'. Peeder:
I camen into the Territory ablout the 1 7th day of Aut,gust, 1854. 1
resided formierly- in Johnson county, Missouri. I settled oil th lie Californiat road, one andl a hial niiles west o!' here, in this distirict and have
resided'n this di.strict ever since. I was heire on the 3(Itli of Marclh,
18)5-. On the 28Sth and 29th of Miarch there wvere about olIe thousand
(lamne into this district frorn MIissouri, they said; some camre ili walgons,
soine on horseback. I do (not know who their leader was, but believe
it was Claiborne Jackson. A great many of them were armed-the
principal part of them. They were all men, in my opinion. They
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