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 82 campaign. Quite naturally the Democratic reporters did not exercise the same care in taking the utterances of Mr. Lincoln as with those of Mr. Douglas, and vice versa. Mr. White described later the difficulties under which the reporting was done—the open air, the rude platforms, the lack of accommodations for writing, the jostling of the crowds of people, and the occasional puffs of wind which played havoc with sheets of paper.

[Chicago Times, August 25, 1858]

LINCOLN'S SPEECH

THE SPEECHES AT OTTAWA

Another Gross Charge.—Dialectics, Logic, and Other Things

Any person who heard at Ottawa the speech of Abraham, alias Old Abe, alias Abe, alias "Spot," Lincoln, must have been astonished at the report of that speech as it appeared in the Press and Tribune of this city. Our version of it was literal. No man, who heard it delivered, could fail to recognize and acknowledge the fidelity of our reporters. We did not attempt, much, to "fix up" the bungling effort; that was not our business. Lincoln should have learned, before this, to "rake after" himself—or rather to supersede the necessity of "raking after" by taking heed to his own thoughts and expressions. If he ever gets into the United States Senate—of which