Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-07-02
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

The Report The majority of the Kansas
Investigating Committee, or some one of those
paid out of the U. 8 Treasury to help them
In their work of garbling and incorporating
the facts involved in the state Of affairs in
Kansas with the aid of the army of per-
jurers, murderers and other perpetrators of
fraud and violence to abolitionize the Terri
tory who were the instruments with which
they carried out the ends for which they were
sent out from this city-have furnished to the
Intetttgeneer an abstract of the report pre-
sented to the House yesterday. We transfer
interest. Two or three facts connected with
1t are especially worthy of note.
First. 1t admits that General Whitfield re-
ceivea at both elections at which he was re-
turned to the House. majority or plurality
of the legal votes cast.
Second It is plain that their plea that the
Legislature ordering the election at which he
was chosen to be delegate in the present Con-
gress was an illegal one, cannot avail them,
because their position upon the whole ques-
ton is, that the action of the majority of the
legal voters of the Territory, without warrant
Of law, is sufficient to render valid their acts
and that Congress should carry out their sen.
timents so expressed without stopping to in
quire whether they acted under warrant Of
law or not While we by no means admit the
truth Of their pretended conclusions with ref.
erence to the question which side has the ma
jority or plurality of the legal votes of Kansas,
we contend that their admission that Gen
Whitfield tcas elected to the present Congress
by a plurality of the legal votes Of the Terri
tory, without taking into the estimate on his
side the alleged votes from Missouri which they
claim to have been illegal, is a complete estop-
pei in his case to their plea that the late Ter
ritOrial Legislature ordering the delegates
election to be held was an illegal one, and that
therefore he was illegally chosen.
Third. 1t is plain that their plea that
public acts must be done there, as else
where, under the authority of valid law
avery frank admission indeed, under the
MISUNDERSTANDING to declaration that
the current effort to force the Topeka-made
constitution-only voted for by from three
to five hundred abolitionists at an illegal
election, as Mr.. Grow admitted in his late
speech-involves fraud upon popular rights
and the subyersion Of all settled principles of
law and Justice, as now being urged upon Con-
gress.
Fourth. That the majority (Of the Commit
tee) in their report, if their own abstract Of it
is q faithful one, have been guilty of fraud on
the House and the country in suppressing all
illusions to the facts showing the frauds, vio-
lence, illegal voting, murders, &c committed
by those who went out there under the aus
pices of the Emigrant Aid Societies, which
having been in evidence before them, will be
set forth in the minority report which Mr.
Oliver is preparing to make.
Fifth. That this majority report, as made,
Is simply an electioneering document, bearing
throughout its whole length irresistible evil
dence that it is merely designed to aid the
cause Of the Republican party in the approach
ing Presidential election, and, to that end,
pays not the slightest respect to truth or jus.
tice in its conclusions and statements; and
that, therefore, it deserves to have no more
weight with Congress than the allegations in
its 4" free State" testimony, which Mr. Sher-
man admitted in the debate on the day be-
fore yesterday, or yesterday-we forget which
to be perjury-the allegatio against Mr.
Oliver. The abstract is as follows:
The report shows that as soon as the bill to
authorize the Territory Of Kansas was passed,
q large number Of the citizens Of Missouri
went into the Territory, held squatter meet
Init
Htionists, and declaring that slavery existed
therein.
In the autumn Of 1854 a secret political
society, called the Blue Lodge, was formed,
the plan Of operations, oaths, &c, Of which
are given by the report. This lodge controlled
all the subsequent movements and invasions
on the part of the Missourians.
At the election of November 20, 1884, for a
delegate in Congress, there was no fraud ex-
cept in the sparsely settled and remote dis.
tricts, where Missouri citizens appeared and
voted. Details in relation to these facts are
given in the report, which says it is reduced
to matthew atical precision tn at seventeen hmm.
dfed illegal and non president votes were east
at that election by citisens of Missouri. and
the remaining eleven hundred were legal
votes. Mr. Whitfield, however, received a
plurality votes, and would have been elected
without the aid Of his Missouri friends.
During the winter very great excitement
existed on account of the invasion, public
meetings being held, and much bitter feeling
was manifested.
In February, 1855, census was taken, and
the number Of legal voters was ascertainsd IN
Be 1905. IL was also discovered that ON the
S0th of March, 1855, several days before the
election, active preparations were made in
Missouri for another invasion complete
organisation was effected; leaders were ap-
pointed; tents, provisions, ammunition, and
arms distributed; the forces were divided
into companies in Missouri, and on the day
of election at least i've thousand citizens of
Missouri, 1t is testified, took up the lire Of