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

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KANSAS AFFAIRS.
I have never heard of their going back. Those who had no money
to get back went to Iiawrencb.
Q. Will you state that, among those emigrants who came out from
Massaclhusetts at or about the time you did, and who have been unable to return, and *who came under the auspices of the Emigrant Aid
Society, whetlher or not, under their agreenent with the Emig,rant
Aid Society, they are not under their control, and by their destitution
made subservient to their will, in their political movements in the
Territory?
A. I do not know further than these persons have told me.
[Mr. Sherman here objects to the declarations of persons as to their
condition of destitution or otherwise, and as to their contiexion with
or subserviency to any persons whatever. After discussion, the objection was overrliled.]
Witness coitinztcd.-There was a man from Lawrence who wanted to
work ior me an(l said he M ould come and work for me if he could
get his p)roperty in Lawrence clear of this society. He afterwards
wrote to me, and said hle could not come witlout losing all he had
in Lavwrence-his lots and house. I do not know any lurther about
the subservency of these emigrants to the society, and their being
obliged by their destitution to remain here, and act as they desired
them to do, than what I have here told, as being learned irom this
man from Lawi-rnce.
A nunmber of emigrants from M3assachusetts, who came here clear
of the Aid Society, and who avowed that they came here to get homes
for themselves, and not for political purposes, I understand have remained in the Territory. I know nothing of the treatment of these
men in the Territory only so -ar as I have heard them say. I have
been kindly treated myself. I know of no one being treated unkindly
who mninds his own business.
I have been at Lawrence. I have had conversation with Mr. Coleman, a leading fiee-State man there. This was during the time the
difficulties took place there last fall, and while forces were camped on
the Wiakarusa. Mr. Coleman was talking with mie in the public
streets, and there were some fifty or more men about us, armed withl
Sharple's rifles. He said, if the forces came there to burn down the
town, they would be resisted. He asked if' the governlor had called
these forces, and I told him it was so understo,od here. A strong
spirit of resistance was evinced b)y the people, and they said, if these
forces camne there, they could stop them. I asked them how many
men they had. They said there would be, if they called them, 1,600.
They asked how many on the other side. I told them that there
were five or six hundred there at the time, and there were more on
the way; and there were rumors that there would be 2,000. They
wanted to know if the government troops had been called out, and I
told them such was the rumor in Missouri. They said, if they were
called out. they sh( Ild not resist them. They said they intend(led to
form a free State constitution, and apply to be admitted as a State;
and if they did not succeed in that, they intended to set up independently for themselves. All of thee were speaking against the laws;
did not like the laws, and would not live under them. All this con