CHAPTER XXV. 
COMMITTEE OF INVESTIGATION — “ SHERIFF JONES 
SHOT. 
The second month of spring was quickly passing away, and 
quiet reigned —a quiet which seemed almost fearful from the 
very stillness. Since the threats of arrest in the early part of 
March, the voice of Missouri had been mostly silent. Save the 
oaths and imprecations which still fall on the ear, on passing 
her citizens, and an occasional opening of boxes designed for the 
territory, at Kansas city, there has been no outrage, and the 
press is silent as to her plans. Notwithstanding the persevering 
efforts of Douglas, the champion of the slave power, and the no 
less zealous exertions of Missouri’s representatives, who hesitated 
not to utter untruths, declaring that no one came from Missouri 
to vote, -— one of them, at least, being present at the election, — a 
committee has been appointed to investigate the wrongs of which 
Kansas has complained to Congress. We, as well as our eastern 
friends, anticipated that quiet would continue while the investi¬ 
gation was entered into; that, from motives of policy alone, the 
enemy would hide in their lair, and attempt to gain the favor of 
the committee by a present show of fairness. Emigration was 
again pouring into the territory; a company of one hundred, from 
Ohio, had just arrived, while the camp-fires at evening, and the 
white-covered wagons of the western emigrant, dotting the high¬ 
ways, told of a general desire to make one’s self a home in Kan¬ 
sas. 
About the 17th of April the commissioners arrived. The hotel, 
which we had long waited for* was nearly finished, and rooms for 
