"Dear Sir--Yesterday I saw Mr. Doniphan, an attorney of this place,
who informed me that he saw the attorney general, Mr. Wells, in Saline
county, last Saturday week and that Mr. Wells had acquainted him with
your intention of ordering a court of inquiry to be held in Jackson
county, in relation to the late riotous proceedings in that county. Mr.
Doniphan is of the opinion from the conversation he had with Mr. Wells,
that said order will be suspended till a communication is received
from our people, or their counsel. This is therefore to acquaint your
excellency, that most of the heads of our Church had an interview
yesterday on the subject of an _immediate_ court of inquiry to be
held in Jackson county, and by their request to me, I hasten to lay
before your excellency serious difficulties attending our people on an
_immediate_ court of inquiry being called.