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

KANSAS AFFAIRS.
if I did not promise to vote the pro-slavery ticket, I would not promise
any such thing. They did not throw me into the river. One stripped
off his hat, but did not attempt to do it. Mr. Jonathan Smith put a
ticket in my hand, and said if I did not vote that ticket I should have
to leave there. I did not vote that ticket, and I did not leave there
immed(liately. No one else tried to make me vote by coercion. Others
argue(l with me, but no one prevented me from voting. I got mad
when MIr. Smith said that to me, and I would not vote, especially as
there was only one set of candidates-the pro-slavery candidates. I
know over one-tenth of the persons who live in the district, I think.
I do not know how many lived in the district at that time. I have
been nearly over the whole district. I cannot state the exact number
:f persons there are in the district. I know two hundred, I think, of
':he residents of that district, and I think there are more there. I think
-here were persons there of both pro-slavery and free-State. I should
;hink that at that time there were a majority of free-State men.
There were two men by the name of Logan, and a Mr. Roberts, freestate men. If I am obliged to tell who are free-State men, I will tell;
)ut I do not want to tell the names of men who do not want their
,ames known, as they do not think it safe. I think there were more
ree-StLte men there than now. I think there were free-State men
here, because I talked to them at different times. I have been beaten
..nd bruised because of my political opinions, and had to show my
)istol to defend my life; and I think I am in danger now, when I tell
.vhat I do here. My wife has scarcely changed her clothes for the last
;ix weeks, and a mob has come about my house and threatened to
,aug me if I did not leave in ten days, and called me an abolitionist,
which I ain not. The primary cause of my difficulty may have grown
,ut of a disputed land claim; but politics has given it a different
omlplexion. Only one of the persons I had the difficulty with had
:.nything to do with the claim. The man who struck me, and the
i-an who drew the pistol on me, never had anything to do with the
'aim. The man who drew the pistol on me I never spoke to in my
ife. This difficulty did not occur on the claim, but at Kickapoo,
here I went to get some corn ground.
[Mr. Scott wishes it noted that he did not call out the account of
he difficulty on cross-examination, but that it was a voluntary state,ient of the witness.]
One of the Logans is on the same claim with myself, and he pointed
-ie out to the Kickapoo bully that they might beat me. He is not a
i,ee-State man now, but he told me at one time that he would not
ive in Kansas if it was a slave State.
Captain John Reed told me his residence was in Clinton county,
Tissouri; that he came over to vote, and was going back home the
-ay of the election. Mr. Benjamin Brooks came up to me, and we
ad some talk about claims. He asked me if I knew where he could
Iuy a claim. I think he acknowledged to me that he had voted, but
,ad no claim; he owns land in Clay county. My understanding of
he matter is, that I should be living in the Territory before having a
ight to vote, but I can live in the Territory without having a claim.
rooks was on his way back to Clay county when I met him; he was
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