. The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 . mpetent buta most faithful reporter. These two gentlemen reported the twospeeches, and they, shortly after their arrival in Chicago from Ottawa,commenced transcribing the speeches from their notes. We publishboth speeches as they were furnished us by the reporters. THE SPEECHES AT OTTAWA Auotlier Gross Charge.—Dialectics, Log-ic, and Other Things Any person who heard at Ottawa the speech of Abraham, alias OldAbe, alias Abe, alias Spot, Lincoln, must have been astonished atthe report of that speech as it appeared in the Press and Tribune ofthis city. Our
. The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 . mpetent buta most faithful reporter. These two gentlemen reported the twospeeches, and they, shortly after their arrival in Chicago from Ottawa,commenced transcribing the speeches from their notes. We publishboth speeches as they were furnished us by the reporters. THE SPEECHES AT OTTAWA Auotlier Gross Charge.—Dialectics, Log-ic, and Other Things Any person who heard at Ottawa the speech of Abraham, alias OldAbe, alias Abe, alias Spot, Lincoln, must have been astonished atthe report of that speech as it appeared in the Press and Tribune ofthis city. Our version of it was literal. No man, who heard itdelivered, could fail to recognize and acknowledge the fidelity of ourreporters. We did not attempt, much, to fix up the bunglingeffort; that was not our business. Lincoln should have learned,before this, to rake after himself—or rather to supersede the neces-sity of raking after by taking heed to his own thoughts andexpressions. If he ever gets into the United States Senate—of which. JAMES B. SHERIDANFrom a photograph in the possession of Mrs. Sheridan, New York, made about 1857 REPORTING THE DEBATES 83 there is no earthly probability—he will have to do that; in thecongressional arena, the words of debaters are snatched from theirlips, as it were, and immediately enter into and become a permanentpart of the literature of the country. But it seems, from the dif-ference between the two versions of Lincolns speech, that theRepublicans have a candidate for the Senate of whose bad rhetoricand horrible jargon they are ashamed, upon which before theywould publish it, they called a council of literary men, to discuss,re-construct and re-write; they dare not allow Lincoln to go intoprint in his own dress; and abuse us, the Times, for reporting himliterally. We also printed Senator Douglas literally. Our accomplishedreporters alone are responsible to us for the accuracy of our version ofboth speeches. There is no orator in America m
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