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84 ," as Douglas hypocritically called him at the Bancroft House, could not go unmutilated.

We have taken the pains to go over the reports of the speeches carefully and note the material alterations—saying nothing of long passages, where the Times' Reporter appeared to aim only at the sense, without giving the language—and find that the number !

We believe that an action for libel would hold against these villians, and they richly deserve the prosecution.

[Chicago Times, October 12, 1858]

GARBLING SPEECHES.—THE OLD CHARGE

[The Daily Whig, Quincy, Ill., October 16, 1858]