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

KANSAS AFFAIRS.
in Kansas Territory when I met him, but he told me he was on his
way back to Clay county, Missouri. I think the residence of George
Gabbord was in Platte county, Missouri, at the time of the election.
I have never been there since. He has a farm and placer in Platte
county, and I never heard of his coming to the Territory to live,
and I am satisfied he never lived in our district. M. J. Alexander
was and is a merchant in Iatan. I saw'Squire Turner on his way
home; he was then acting magistrate in Platte county. M. Lenmud's residence is near Mr. Turner's. I saw him coming from the
election. I do not know of any one voting except those who told me
they had voted.
To Mr. Grover:
I have been quite frequently in M,issouri since I moved to the Territory. I have been over there for four weeks at a time.
EDWARD BOURNE.
LEAVENWORTH CITY, K. T., Fray 22, 1856.
O. 1. BREWSTER called and sworn.
I have resided in Lexington, Missouri, nearly four years, and came
originally from New York State. I was about three miles from town
here at the time of the difficulties at Lawrence, Kansas Territory,
last fall, working for Col. Ewing at my trade of carpentering. I
was there when the news of Governor Shannon's proclamation first
came. Col. Ewing urged his hands, just as soon as his house was
finished, to go up to Kansas. He stated as a reason that Governor
Shannon in his proclamation had called upon the citizens of Missouri,
and they had a right to go up there and enlist in the militia of the
Territory, and that Governor Shannon's proclamation was sufficient
authority for them to do so. I attended a public meeting afterwards,
and heard speeches made by citizens of this place, as far as I knew
them. Men were called on to enrol their names, and I saw quite a
number go up and write their names to go up to the Territory. It
was said that those who had no horses should be furnished with
them, and that provisions should be furnished them, and it should
cost you-ig men nothing to go out to the Territory and come
back. i think a hundred or more went from here or through this
place, and I heard a large number state that they intended to
burn Lawrence and wipe out the abolitionists. I heard several
of them converse after they came back, and one, in particular,
(Captain J. Reese, a lawyer of this place) said that the Missourians,
with the militia, would have rushed into Lawrence and destroyed it
if it had not been for the Sharpe's rifles. I heard others converse,
but it amounted to about the same thing.
I have seen Major Oliver, the representative to Congress from the
district across the river. I heard him make a speech at the proslavery convention for the State of Missouri, held in Lexington,
Missouri, on the 26th of June, 1855. It was the same meeting at
which President Shannon, of the State University, addressed those
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