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

KANSAS AFFAIRS.
was taking so many men up there for; and one of them said, I do not
know which one, that they were going up there to guard the polls,
and not let certain persons vote. I asked him if they were not going
to see a little town called Atchison, and he said he might and he might
not, but he did not know. About that time some of his men and
wagons came up. I did not see as many men or wagons pass at that
time as I had understood from him there was. I went to the election
on the 30th of March, 1855, at Mr. Bryant's, in the 14th district; I
saw one illegal vote given, and I objected to it very strongly. It was
a man by the name of Charles Gilmor; when I objected, Colonel
Craig was sitting in place of one of the judges or clerks who was gone
to dinner I supposed. I objected to Cary Whitehead, one of the
judges. They took the vote, and said I had no right to object. I
asked them to swear him, and they said they had no right to swear
him. This Gilmor was not a citizen, and I never heard of his being
a citizen of the Territory since.
Cross-examined by M. Scott:
I judged, from what General Atchison said, that the persons referred to by John Boler were coming over from Iowa, but I do not know
as that was so. I do not know as I saw more than two Bowie knives
and four pistols at the time General Atchison was looking for the
Bowie knife. Gilmor said at the polls that he had no claim, and
that he had come from Illinois to get a claim, and would have one. I
was born in Virginia, married in Kentucky, and raised a family in
Missouri.
LEAVENWORTH CITY, K. T., May 23, 1856.
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